Re: pinebook pro video console not active

Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:44:33 +0100
Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Pinebook Pro 14-current with console="efi,comconsole" in 
> /boot/loader.conf
> vidcontrol -i active < /dev/console is not working because serial stays 
> primary. Reverting 123b5b8763778e83b6816ad9db62a9b956055c32 fixes that 
> for me. Can someone share some light on why that is?

 You also need boot_multicons=YES in loader.conf for this to work (at
least on amd64).
 Maybe imp@ knows more about this behavior.

> console kit relies on /dev/console beeing active so it is an annoying
> bug..
> the original review is here https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32992
> 
> 
> Thanks
> /jsm
> 


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