svn commit: r268045 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Stefan Farfeleder]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:18:38PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Mon Jun 30 16:18:38 2014
> New Revision: 268045
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268045
> 
> Log:
>   Add vt(4) to GENERIC and retire the separate VT config
>   
>   vt(4) and sc(4) can now coexist in the same kernel.  To choose the vt
>   driver, set the loader tunable kern.vty=vt .

Hi Ed,

I just added `device vt' to my kernel and set kern.vty=vt, but got no
output at all upon rebooting. I tried setting hw.vga.textmode=1 as found
in the man page but that didn't change anything.

Only on the Wiki page I then found I need `device vt_vga' as well. With
this it works for me now. In case it matters I have an nVidia graphic
card and nvidia.ko loaded.

Would it be possible to make this a runtime printf if missing? Or at
least it should be added to vt(4) (there doesn't seem to be a man page
for vt_vga) and maybe UPDATING.

BR,
Stefan