svn commit: r53871 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 6 16:52:49 UTC 2020


Author: 0mp
Date: Thu Feb  6 16:52:49 2020
New Revision: 53871
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53871

Log:
  Update FAQ use of "default console driver" to be vt(4), not syscons(4)
  
  PR:		220015
  Submitted by:	pauamma_gundo.com
  Reported by:	salternate at gmx.com
  Reviewed by:	bcr
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22699

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Thu Feb  6 16:21:20 2020	(r53870)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Thu Feb  6 16:52:49 2020	(r53871)
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@
 
 	  <answer>
 	    <para>The default console driver,
-	      &man.syscons.4;, provides the ability to use a mouse
+	      &man.vt.4;, provides the ability to use a mouse
 	      pointer in text consoles to cut & paste text.  Run
 	      the mouse daemon, &man.moused.8;, and turn on the mouse
 	      pointer in the virtual console:</para>
@@ -3770,23 +3770,11 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</pr
 	</question>
 
 	<answer>
-	  <para>When using &man.syscons.4;, the default console
-	    driver, build and install a new kernel with this line in
-	    the configuration file:</para>
+	  <para>When using &man.vt.4;, the default console
+	    driver, this can be done by setting the following
+	    &man.sysctl.8;:</para>
 
-	  <programlisting>options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT</programlisting>
-
-	  <para>This can also be done by setting the following
-	    &man.sysctl.8; which does not require a reboot or kernel
-	    recompile:</para>
-
-	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0</userinput></screen>
-
-	  <note>
-	    <para>The above two methods are exclusive:  The
-	      &man.sysctl.8; does not exist if the kernel is compiled
-	      with <literal>SC_DISABLE_REBOOT</literal>.</para>
-	  </note>
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl kern.vt.kbd_reboot=0</userinput></screen>
 	</answer>
       </qandaentry>
 
@@ -4231,10 +4219,10 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</pr
 	</question>
 
 	<answer>
-	  <para>When using &man.syscons.4;, the default console
+	  <para>When using &man.vt.4;, the default console
 	    driver, &os; can be configured to support a mouse pointer
 	    on each virtual screen.  To avoid conflicting with X,
-	    &man.syscons.4; supports a virtual device called
+	    &man.vt.4; supports a virtual device called
 	    <filename>/dev/sysmouse</filename>.  All mouse events
 	    received from the real mouse device are written to the
 	    &man.sysmouse.4; device via &man.moused.8;.  To use the


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