On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 07/02/14 12:57, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Trond Endrestøl < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:05+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:51+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Is it just me or is there something wrong with vidcontrol(1) in >>>>> base/head, amd64, sc console, r268165? >>>>> >>>>> First, I had to specify absolute pathnames for the font8x16, font8x14, >>>>> and font8x8 variables in /etc/rc.conf before vidcontrol(1) would load >>>>> anything, and next, vidcontrol(1), when run by /etc/rc.d/syscons, >>>>> complains about: >>>>> >>>>> Bad magic >>>>> vidcontrol: failed to load font >>>>> >>>> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt": No error: 0 >>> >>>> Bad magic >>>>> vidcontrol: failed to load font >>>>> >>>> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x14.fnt": No error: 0 >>> >>>> Bad magic >>>>> vidcontrol: failed to load font >>>>> >>>> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt": No error: 0 >>> >>>> I wouldn't rule out pilot error on my part, but r267957 worked >>>>> flawlessly in this regard. >>>>> >>>> I guess with both sc and vt in the kernel, line 220 of >>>> usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c needs a slight adjustment. >>>> >>> The same adjustment will be needed at line 150 of >>> usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdcontrol.c. >>> >>> I don't believe that building a kernel for both vt and sc is supported, >> so >> I'm not surprised that it does not work. >> >> I would like to know how you intend to use such a kernel. I'm not sure I >> see a case where having both would be useful and it looks like keeping >> them >> straight would be rather a problem. >> > > GENERIC is such a kernel as of a few days ago. The idea is to provide a > transition mechanism for people who want syscons for whatever reason but > also want to, say, use KMS drivers or boot with EFI without building a new > kernel. > -Nathan > Ack! I'm 3 days out of date! This looks very handy for transition between sc and vt. And I now realize that you don't run both at the same time, just select the one to run at boot time. (Duh!) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
