Hi,
 thanks for the tidbits about being seriouly alpha code. 

It compiled clean and its detected now:
...

sfb0 at tc0 slot 4 offset 0x2000000: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at sfb0

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SWITCHING TO SERIAL CONSOLE!

Ok theres nothing in the conf about setting an option to avoid the serial
console.
 Where is this option set at since I don't see anything about serial
console in the conf.

Thanks again. 
Terry



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