Vt console in FreeBSD
Introduction
For some reason server distributions of *nix now have to have a vt based (compositing) console, so that you can get your console into the larger resolutions.
Personally I fail to see the need for this at all. When you connect to your server it is via ssh 95% of the time. Or probably more. And your client PC where off you run ssh probably has a hd display today. Using the actual console is something you do when there are problems. Usually in single user mode. This does not have to be bling bling.
What about us, that depend on the serial console? Or text mode without a compositor. Well it would seem FreeBSD is now going down the Ubuntu server road, and we have to do some fiddeling in order to make our Inside Lights out cards, serial consoles and what not working again.
At least for me, my iLO card on my HP server could no longer bridge to the console after an upgrade to FreeBSD 11. I was told the console was in an unsupported graphics mode and after plugging a monitor onto the server, it was in 640x480.
How to fix this.
Fortunately this is simple not requiring a custom kernel build or anything. In loader.conf put:
kern.vty=sc
And you are back to the old sc driver for the console. And I can again get a console via ethernet. Also in single user via the iLO.
Conclusion
Back to normal ..
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