Hi I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console driver has a very important change in behavior, replacing the ancient ?BIOS? text mode with a graphic VGA mode. I don?t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for consoles, but at least HP?s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing the console through a ssh connection instead of requiring a bloated Java console, and it?s a very convenient feature. But it only works in pure ?BIOS text mode? (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default). I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so that its behavior mimics the old sc driver. I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and beautiful butterflies revolving around them, but boot messages are critical when diagnosing problems. I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it?s a very minor change. What do you think? Borja.
On Sep 9, 2016 05:06, "Borja Marcos" <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:> > Hi > > I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console > driver has a very important > change in behavior, replacing the ancient ?BIOS? text mode with a graphic > VGA mode. > > I don?t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for > consoles, but at least > HP?s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing the console through a > ssh connection instead > of requiring a bloated Java console, and it?s a very convenient feature. > But it only works in pure > ?BIOS text mode? (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default). > > I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so > that its behavior mimics > the old sc driver. > > I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and > beautiful butterflies revolving > around them, but boot messages are critical when diagnosing problems. > > I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it?s a very minor > change. > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > Borja. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"Hello! I concur, but for the selfish reason that the graphics mode breaks the 11.0 installer for me completely by default. See: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211876 Thanks, Kyle Evans
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:59:45 +0200 Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote> Hi > > I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console > driver has a very important change in behavior, replacing the ancient > ?BIOS? text mode with a graphic VGA mode. > > I don?t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for > consoles, but at least HP?s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing > the console through a ssh connection instead of requiring a bloated Java > console, and it?s a very convenient feature. But it only works in pure > ?BIOS text mode? (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default). > > I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so that > its behavior mimics the old sc driver. > > I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and > beautiful butterflies revolving around them, but boot messages are critical > when diagnosing problems.LOL> > I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it?s a very minor > change. > > > > > What do you think?+1 It might also be worth mentioning that (most?) NVIDIA card users users will also suffer from this (non text mode).> > > > > Borja. >--Chris
On 09/09/16 11:59, Borja Marcos wrote:> > Hi > > I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console driver has a very important > change in behavior, replacing the ancient ?BIOS? text mode with a graphic VGA mode. > > I don?t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for consoles, but at least > HP?s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing the console through a ssh connection instead > of requiring a bloated Java console, and it?s a very convenient feature. But it only works in pure > ?BIOS text mode? (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default). > > I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so that its behavior mimics > the old sc driver. > > I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and beautiful butterflies revolving > around them, but boot messages are critical when diagnosing problems. > > I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it?s a very minor change. > > > > > What do you think?The presence of a ipmi* device could be a good heuristic to select the default mode.