Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:59:55 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPi4 Status and xorg behavior Message-ID: <7061B16B-C8D6-4394-BA04-2AC8CA6DE72F@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <C372DA5D-A99B-412D-83FD-F4AA5DB20F37@yahoo.com> References: <BDF8C846-1CB3-421E-A8D5-25E0075C7106@yahoo.com> <20210307021628.GA99890@www.zefox.net> <AAA4E495-4E9E-4C55-A07E-74D9737EC15B@yahoo.com> <20210307155515.GA4591@www.zefox.net> <67BF2EAC-04AD-4822-99B2-48A99563331F@yahoo.com> <G5ZAfvg49jl5dj40HAnjmwoEKpVSuGp8KmiBrSY_EBLXou6UGBIjU3tVxUuPGKeCvXEovg2d3tqhIGOmQCyb7c3wKsUHJ8xrSasvwXfbqwk=@protonmail.com> <4B963C56-D7E9-42FE-8B8B-B8A425ACE78F@yahoo.com> <20210308011035.GA6603@www.zefox.net> <DB3CD5BA-337E-476F-9F0C-C70401F7D800@yahoo.com> <C372DA5D-A99B-412D-83FD-F4AA5DB20F37@yahoo.com>
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On 2021-Mar-8, at 12:53, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2021-Mar-8, at 00:14, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote: > > On 2021-Mar-7, at 17:10, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote: > > >>> In the interests of exploration, I tinkered a bit more with >>> my Pi4 running the latest -current snapshot. Here are a few >>> observations: >> >> You may want to be explicit about the build version >> involved (last commit involved on what branch). >> >> My notes below are from a non-debugt build based on >> main bad9fa56620e (CommitDate: 2021-03-06 21:46:28 >> +0000). Used on a RPi4B 8GiByte. >> >>> Screen resolution seems to be about 30 lines by 90 columns, >>> on a commonplace Dell 1920 by 1080 HDMI display. Mouse and >>> keyboard work correctly. >> >> My boot sequence for the RPi4B 8 GiByte shows (when I have >> the HDMI display attached, which I usually do not): >> >> EFI framebuffer information: >> addr, size 0x3e2fe000, 0x7e9000 >> dimensions 1920 x 1080 >> stride 1920 >> masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000 >> . . . >> fb0: <BCM2835 VT framebuffer driver> on simplebus0 >> fb0: keeping existing fb bpp of 32 >> fbd0 on fb0 >> WARNING: Device "fb" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0. >> VT: Replacing driver "efifb" with new "fb". >> fb0: 1920x1080(1920x1080@0,0) 32bpp >> fb0: fbswap: 1, pitch 7680, base 0x3e2fe000, screen_size 8355840 >> . . . >> >> I use: >> >> if [ -x /usr/bin/resizewin ] ; then /usr/bin/resizewin -z ; fi >> >> in various ~/.profile files and after logging-in doing a >> "stty -a" shows as its first line: >> >> speed 9600 baud; 67 rows; 240 columns; >> >> Thus figures seem accurate. >> >> I doubt that it matters but /boot/loader.conf does have: >> >> boot_multicons="YES" >> boot_serial="YES" >> > > I tried booting 13.0-RC1 with the updated RPi4 firmware > substituted and in that context I do see the large font > on the display from that combination. > > My main context does not have the config.txt line: > > hdmi_safe=1 > > and if I comment it out on 13.0-RC1: > > #hdmi_safe=1 > > and then boot again I end up with the same as my > main enviroment was showing instead of the huge > font showing. Correcting my ThreadRipper display size mistake . . . >> FYI: >> On the ThreadRipper I do control things explicitly >> via /boot/loader.conf having: >> >> screen.textmode="0" >> screen.font="8x16" >> >> but the context is a 2560 x 1440 display and there Really 1920 x 1200: I was thinking of the wrong display. >> is no serial console set up for this context. I've >> not investigated such things on any other type of >> context. "stty -a" ends up reporting: >> >> speed 9600 baud; 75 rows; 240 columns; At 1920 x 1200 the 75 rows and 240 columns makes more sense vs. 1920 x 1080. >> (System built from same sources as the RPi4B's >> system was, also non-debug style.) === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)home | help
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