Bug 210436 - vt(4) boot time default console driver selection not working
Summary: vt(4) boot time default console driver selection not working
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Ed Maste
URL:
Keywords: vt
Depends on:
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Reported: 2016-06-21 13:19 UTC by joeb1
Modified: 2016-06-21 17:06 UTC (History)
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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 freebsd_triage 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 freebsd_triage 2016-06-21 17:06:14 UTC 
Man pages were updated in r302055 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/302055