console in 11.0-ALPHA4

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Mon Jun 20 18:31:10 UTC 2016


On 20 June 2016 at 12:45, Trond Endrestøl
<Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
>
> If you want textmode like in the old days, add this line to
> /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.vga.textmode="1"

One note, in textmode vt(4) is limited to cp437. The console still
uses Unicode internally but has a fixed lookup table to map to the
cp437 character set.


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