Bug 210436

Summary:	vt(4) boot time default console driver selection not working
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	joeb1
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Ed Maste <emaste>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	emaste
Priority:	---	Keywords:	vt
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description joeb1 2016-06-21 13:19:21 UTC

The vt manual says this under the kern.vty heading,
Set this value to 'vt' or 'sc' to override the default driver used for the system console. BY default, sc(4) is used on computers that boot from BIOS, and vt is used on computers that boot from UEFI.

MY old DELL desktop boots from BIOS but yet I get vt graph mode auto selected.
According to the vt manual this should not happen. Tested on 11.0-ALPHA4.

Comment 1 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2016-06-21 13:51:10 UTC

The man page update is waiting on review and re@ approval: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6901

Comment 2 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2016-06-21 17:06:14 UTC

Man pages were updated in r302055 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/302055