Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Peyrolon
> I guess that I should do: > # echo kern.vty=\"vt\" >> /boot/loader.conf That did the trick. Thanks Ed! 2014-07-19 0:57 GMT+02:00 Daniel Peyrolon : > Allright, it seems that the kernel switched back to sysconsole. (kern.vty: > sc) > > The wiki says that I should add this to the loader: >

Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Peyrolon
Allright, it seems that the kernel switched back to sysconsole. (kern.vty: sc) The wiki says that I should add this to the loader: To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, set the loader tunable kern.vty=vt. I guess that I should do: # echo kern.vty=\"vt\" >> /boot/loader.conf 2014-07-18 18

Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Ed Maste
On 18 July 2014 12:36, Daniel Peyrolon wrote: > I basically installed from a FreeBSD VT enabled ISO. Ok, it seems those are not available any longer. To confirm that you're actually using vt, check "sysctl kern.vty". It will report either sc, vt, or an error. If you get an error the kernel pre

Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Peyrolon
I basically installed from a FreeBSD VT enabled ISO. You presume correctly. On Jul 18, 2014 3:42 PM, "Ed Maste" wrote: > On 18 July 2014 10:32, Daniel Peyrolon wrote: > > The problems arise when I try to use the console, the screen just shows a > > static image of the last xorg frame, with some

Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Ed Maste
On 18 July 2014 10:32, Daniel Peyrolon wrote: > The problems arise when I try to use the console, the screen just shows a > static image of the last xorg frame, with some weird colors. I presume you mean you try to access the console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (for example), and then see the static

VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Peyrolon
Hello there, I have both and a end-of-June installed kernels (the second at /boot/kernel.old), and somehow, the console stops working when it changes its mode. I'm using the most recent one, I installed xdm and I'm running xorg over here, without problems. The problems arise when I try to use the