Bug#785196: kfreebsd-image-10-amd64: Console has no output in qemu -display curses
Hi Jan,
How did you install this headless system? The install media has a
graphical GRUB menu which I don't think you could operate from a text-
only console. Did you have a graphical display during install?
Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> * if text-mode was default, what happens when a drm2 graphics driver
> is loaded; does VT switching still work then?
tested that, it switches over to KMS as soon as the kernel
module is loaded, by the Xorg video driver or otherwise
> * I recall the old VT would glitch sometimes on 'cursor left' (glyphs
> would be blanked out though they are still there); would text-mode
> reintroduce that bug?
newcons doesn't seem to have that bug any more, even in text mode
> * does the text-mode console break any glyphs that were supported in
> vga mode? (I think I know an easy way to check this in d-i)
text-mode lacks support for locales at localechooser's level
2 or higher. And even at level 1 the Í in Íslenska didn't render,
so probably some level 1 locales are not fully supported. The vga or
KMS framebuffer seems okay up to level 2.
Therefore, I don't think text-mode is a good default for everyone.
Let's only use it where we need to.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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