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

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org>
wrote:

>
> On 07/02/14 12:57, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> GENERIC is such a kernel as of a few days ago. The idea is to provide a
> transition mechanism for people who want syscons for whatever reason but
> also want to, say, use KMS drivers or boot with EFI without building a new
> kernel.
> -Nathan
>

Ack! I'm 3 days out of date! This looks very handy for transition between
sc and vt. And I now realize that you don't run both at the same time, just
select the one to run at boot time. (Duh!)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com