[OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

[Chris]

On 2021-01-29 13:20, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> On 01/29/21 17:29, Chris wrote:
>> On 2021-01-28 23:38, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>> On 29.01.21 06:48, Chris wrote:
>>>> Maybe I'm spoiled, because the (Free)BSD console(s)
>>>> are great. I can CTRL+ALT+F(1-12) for a new session, and attack
>>>> several different tasks simultaneously.
>>>> Guess I'm going to have to build all that into OI.
>>> 
>>> Fire up services
>>> 
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/vtdaemon:default
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/console-login:vt4
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/console-login:vt6
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/console-login:vt3
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/console-login:vt5
>>> online         2018     svc:/system/console-login:vt2
>>> 
>>> and you have what you want (note: Its alt only on the console, ctrl-alt in 
>>> X)
>>> alt-f 1 to 6 gives a new console, alt-f7 graphical desktop (if X is
>>> running).
>> Thanks! I don't have any of that here. This sort of thing is
>> controlled by /etc/ttys on FreeBSD. I'm not sure what the equivalent
>> is on OI. Will have to look around and see what I can find.
>> Seems odd to me your listing above isn't initiated by default.
>> 
>> Thanks again! :-)
>> 
>> --Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> Hello Chris!
> 
> On my system that was installed on Jan, 24
> the services are _not_ enabled by default
> 
> $ svcs -a|grep -i vt
> disabled       20:57:27 svc:/system/vtdaemon:default
> disabled       20:57:27 svc:/system/console-login:vt2
> ..
> disabled       20:57:27 svc:/system/console-login:vt6
> 
> So you have to enable them after installation:
> svcadm enable svc:/system/vtdaemon:default
> 
> .. and Udo is right, i made a mistake, the keys to be pressed are
> 
> CTRL-ALT-F1 for the firstVT
> CTRL-ALT-F2 for the 2nd VT
> ..
> 
> *Uups* - These VT won't be there on an UEFI System - just at this moment 
> looking
> at a black screen after pressing CRTL-ALT-F1
> 
> dmesg says:
> console-kit-daemon[512]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: signal
> "open_session_request" (from "OpenSessionRequest") exported but not found in
> object class "CkSeat"
> 
> Be sure to use LEGACY boot option - if you have..
Thank you, Stephan!

Yep. sudo svcadm enable vtdaemon
followed by
for i in 2 3 4 5 6 ; do sudo svcadm enable console-login:vt$i; done;
gets it. :-)
Thanks again!
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stephan
> 
--Chris

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