Re: Are textmode consoles/terminals still supported?

Add the following to /boot/loader.conf

Its a tunable but not a sysctl so you can't query it, you just need to 
set it by adding it to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.vga.textmode="1"

On 20/03/2017 21:58, Chris H wrote:
> I'm attempting to get a video card that DTRT on FreeBSD.
> I started with the graphics provided by an AMD A6-7470K,
> only to discover it's not yet supported. So I forked out
> for a recent nvidia card, and build/installed a new
> world/kernel.
> Everything seemed to be as one would expect, except there
> was an issue with loader.efi. So I had to move mine aside,
> and use the one off the install media (tho I understand
> the (u)efi has since been fixed). Now, I'm attempting to
> obtain textmode. The text stripped from a tty, and pasted
> to a new file in a textmode editor -- ee(1) for example;
> pads the line with spaces to EOL, and prefaces each line
> following the first line with rubbish (about 1 to 2
> characters worth).
> So "graphics mode" or vt(4) isn't going to get it, for me.
> Textmode, and syscons(4) has always worked as expected, and
> I thought I'd try to re-enable it, or get textmode via vt(4).
> But all attempts fail.
> excerpt from my KERNCONF
>
> device		vga
> options 	VESA
>
> device		sc
> options 	SC_PIXEL_MODE
>
> device		vt
> device		vt_vga
> device		vt_efifb
>
> However, following the advice on the freebsd wiki, querying
> the value in sysctl(8) returns:
> # sysctl hw.vga.textmode
> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.vga.textmode'
>
> OK how bout vidcontrol(1)
> # vidcontrol -i adapter
> vidcontrol: obtaining adapter information: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> So, it appears from my standpoint that textmode is no longer
> supported?
>
> FWIW:
> FreeBSD trump.whitehouse.gov.test 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r314700:
> Sun Mar 5 09:01:30 PST 2017
> root_at_trump.whitehouse.gov.test:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTKERN amd6
>
> Thank you for anything that might help me obtain textmode again.
>
> --Chris
>
>
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