Re: vidcontrol(1) complains about Bad magic, in base/head, amd64, sc console, r268165

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Trond Endrestøl <
Trond.Endrestol_at_fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:05+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:51+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it just me or is there something wrong with vidcontrol(1) in
> > > base/head, amd64, sc console, r268165?
> > >
> > > First, I had to specify absolute pathnames for the font8x16, font8x14,
> > > and font8x8 variables in /etc/rc.conf before vidcontrol(1) would load
> > > anything, and next, vidcontrol(1), when run by /etc/rc.d/syscons,
> > > complains about:
> > >
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt": No error: 0
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x14.fnt": No error: 0
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt": No error: 0
> > >
> > > I wouldn't rule out pilot error on my part, but r267957 worked
> > > flawlessly in this regard.
> >
> > I guess with both sc and vt in the kernel, line 220 of
> > usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c needs a slight adjustment.
>
> The same adjustment will be needed at line 150 of
> usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdcontrol.c.
>

I don't believe that building a kernel for both vt and sc is supported, so
I'm not surprised that it does not work.

I would like to know how you intend to use such a kernel. I'm not sure I
see a case where having both would be useful and it looks like keeping them
straight would be rather a problem.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com