[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get a usable console on OI?

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Volker A. Brandt wrote:

; Chris writes:
; > On 2021-01-25 00:42, vab at bb-c.de wrote:
; [...]
; > > @Chris: Do try to set console resolution to 8 bit and see if it improves
; > > things for you.  You need to create the directory /boot/conf.d if it
; > > doesn't already exist, and add the following
; > >
; > >   loader_resolution=1280x1024x8
; > >   boot_resolution=1280x1024x8
; > Thanks for your reply, Volker!
; > I dumped the above 2 lines to /boot/loader.conf (actually 1920x1200)
; > but they were ignored.
;
; Not sure if they would work there.  The tried and true way is to create
; /boot/conf.d and put those lines into /boot/conf.d/loader-args (that's
; the name I use).

Setting the resolutions like this is an OmniOS feature which hasn't been
upstreamed, so it unfortunately won't work in OpenIndiana.

Andy