The kms console is still experimental but we will be enabling it by default soon. You can enable it by putting this in your /boot/loader.conf:
kern.kms_console=1 In terms of boot times, there aren't any shortcuts available for the kernel boot itself but you can reduce the menu time in the boot loader by setting the autoboot_delay variable in your /boot/loader.conf. For example: autoboot_delay=2 -Matt On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Gautam Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm a new user. I'm running 4.2 on an i3 Haswell. There are a few > questions I > was hoping you could help with. > > 1. How do you decrease the boot time? On my machine with an ssd, it takes > more than 20 seconds from the time I press the on button to the time I'm > presented with the login prompt. That's significantly worse than Windows or > Debian, which is surprising since Dragonfly is so much smaller and more > minimal. I notice two things: A. we are asked to press '1' to boot the > standard OS, and B. the screen then fills up with the output of dmesg, i.e > what drivers it can find and so forth. Is there any way to configure the OS > so that it does A automatically? And any way to speed up B? > > > 2. To get to my MATE desktop, I currently enter 'startx' at the command > prompt. When I log out (within MATE), the screen goes black and nothing > happens. How do I configure the machine so that A. it presents me with a > graphical login screen at boot, not a command line and B. it allows me to > log > out and switch users from within MATE? > > > Sorry if these are dumb questions. I looked through the handbook and the > man > pages and couldn't find the answers. Thanks in advance for any help! > >
