On Monday, June 20, 2016 11:36:09 AM Ernie Luzar wrote: > I have installed 11.0-ALPHA4-i386-20160617-r301975. > > The console looks very different from all previous releases. > I find it to be harder to read. This manifests it self with the boot log > messages and the normal behavior of the virtual consoles. > > But the real problem is in the notable hesitation when switching between > virtual consoles. > > From the boot log (ie: dmesg) I see this > VT(vga): resolution 640x480 > > This must be what is making the console display so different from > previous releases. Can VT be configured to default to present the same > console behavior as previous releases before this version of 11.0 gets > published as RELEASE?
The difference is that vt(4) (the default console driver) only does software rendering of fonts. The older console driver syscons (sc(4)), used VGA text mode which uses a font in your adapter's BIOS ROM. The two fonts aren't quite the same. There is a 'vgarom' font you can try to use that should more closely match the previous console. > About the "hesitation when switching between virtual consoles" I am > thinking that this reduced performance may be caused by WITNESS being > enabled in the ALPHA series of releases. Can anyone verify that this > hesitation will not exist in the published RELEASE? I suspect this is just due to vt(4) rather than WITNESS. > In the boot log I get this message 16 times. > "vicontrol: setting cursor type: Inappropriate ioctl for device" > They don't seem to cause any problems that I have stumbled across. > Is anyone else getting these "NOTICE" type messages? vt(4) doesn't support several features that sc(4) supports. However, sc(4) doesn't support framebuffer systems very well, and does not support UTF-8, etc. Note that for comparisons you can enable vt(4) on stable/10 by setting 'kern.vty=vt' in loader.conf or at the loader prompt. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
