RFT vidcontrol for vt(4)

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon May 12 15:26:01 UTC 2014


On 05/12/14 08:10, Claude Buisson wrote:
>>>
>>> What I have to do to get scrolling on every ttyvN ?
>>>
>>> The only way to get the system working in normal VGA mode (640x480) 
>>> (not loading
>>> the drm2 and radeon kms modules by loader.conf) is by configuring 
>>> the BIOS to
>>> not do display expansion - which leads to the same ridiculously 
>>> small font..
>>>
>>> And of course, kbdmux keeps being mandatory to be able to load a 
>>> keymap.
>>
>> Yeah, I still remember. :)
>>
>
> This could be noted in the newly born vt(4) man page ..

Is there any reason not to have kbdmux be mandatory at this point? 
Having it be non-optional would simplify a lot of code and most of the 
code for the non-kbdmux case is heavily bitrotten at this point (see here).
-Nathan


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