newcons wiki page

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Eric Roseman wrote:
> The newcons wiki page (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons) Testing
> section says:
> 
> To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, remove the vga and sc drivers, and add vt and vt_vga.
> #device        vga             # VGA video card driver                 
> #device        sc                                                      
> device         vt                                                              
> device         vt_vga
> 
> This does not explain which file to edit. I'm guessing this is a well
> known or common file, but I'm not sure where these modifications should
> be made.
> 

Thanks, I'll update it.

It is the GENERIC configuration file.  But, if you don't want to edit
that file, you can specify KERNCONF=VT on head/ or the stable/ branches
(not the releng/ branches) - it has all the bits for the vt driver.

Glen

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