svn commit: r268215 - head/share/man/man4
Ed Maste
emaste at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 3 13:51:11 UTC 2014
Author: emaste
Date: Thu Jul 3 13:51:10 2014
New Revision: 268215
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268215
Log:
Describe kern.vty sc/vt tunable in syscons(4)
Reviewed by: wblock
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/syscons.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/syscons.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/syscons.4 Thu Jul 3 13:49:43 2014 (r268214)
+++ head/share/man/man4/syscons.4 Thu Jul 3 13:51:10 2014 (r268215)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 11, 2009
+.Dd July 3, 2014
.Dt SYSCONS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ In
.Pa /boot/device.hints :
.Cd hint.sc.0.at="isa"
.Cd hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x103
+.Pp
+In
+.Pa /boot/loader.conf :
+.Cd kern.vty=sc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -448,6 +452,26 @@ This option instructs the syscons driver
for a keyboard device if it is not currently attached to one.
Otherwise, the driver only probes for a keyboard once during bootup.
.El
+.Ss Loader Tunables
+These settings can be entered at the
+.Xr loader 8
+prompt or in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 .
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Va kern.vty
+When both
+.Nm
+and
+.Xr vt 4
+have been compiled into the kernel, the one to use for the system console can
+be selected by setting this variable to
+.Ql sc
+or
+.Ql vt .
+If not set,
+.Nm
+provides the default system console.
+.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/xxxxyyyyzzz -compact
.It Pa /dev/console
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