Describe kern.vty sc/vt tunable in syscons(4)

Reviewed by:	wblock
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Ed Maste 2014-07-03 13:51:10 +00:00
parent c22de76166
commit 34b800be20

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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 11, 2009
.Dd July 3, 2014
.Dt SYSCONS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ In
.Pa /boot/device.hints :
.Cd hint.sc.0.at="isa"
.Cd hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x103
.Pp
In
.Pa /boot/loader.conf :
.Cd kern.vty=sc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@ -448,6 +452,26 @@ This option instructs the syscons driver to periodically scan
for a keyboard device if it is not currently attached to one.
Otherwise, the driver only probes for a keyboard once during bootup.
.El
.Ss Loader Tunables
These settings can be entered at the
.Xr loader 8
prompt or in
.Xr loader.conf 5 .
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va kern.vty
When both
.Nm
and
.Xr vt 4
have been compiled into the kernel, the one to use for the system console can
be selected by setting this variable to
.Ql sc
or
.Ql vt .
If not set,
.Nm
provides the default system console.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/xxxxyyyyzzz -compact
.It Pa /dev/console