Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:58:32 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot messages scroll off bottom of screen on ThinkPad T580 with drm-next-kmod-20180822 Message-ID: <3bfcafcb-337b-2e8c-08b2-f1d6d873dba8@bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <d33d4087-2bcc-9ea5-0b1c-196703f3e23a@bluestop.org> References: <d33d4087-2bcc-9ea5-0b1c-196703f3e23a@bluestop.org>
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On 9/13/18 7:24 PM, Rebecca Cran via freebsd-x11 wrote: > I'm not sure when this started, but I've recently updated my kernel to > r338669 (12.0-ALPHA5) and am running drm-next-kmod-4.11-g20180822on a > ThinkPad T530. Now when I boot, after the i915kms.ko loads the boot > messages start scrolling off the bottom of the screen, and I can only > see them by hitting Enter lots of times. As suggested on gitter.im I > tried running drm-devel-kmod, but it caused the screen to blank and the > machine to apparently hang (as in > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2018-September/021588.html, > but the caps lock key on the built-in keyboard kept working). I've just realized that the built-in display shows the boot messages correctly, with the cursor remaining at the bottom of the screen: it's the external DisplayPort monitor that's having them scroll off the bottom. -- Rebecca
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