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From: Stari Karp To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:27:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <55924.1460151469@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <55924.1460151469@server1.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:27:55 -0000 On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 14:37 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I googled around a bit more and found some helpful information on > this topic: > >     https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49601/ > > Adding the line: > >    hw.vga.textmode=1 > > to my /boot/loader.conf file did indeed fix the problem that I asked > about, however the discussion at the above thread raised some new > questions in my mind. > > Specifically, as noted in the above cited thread, one author noted, > correctly, that if one puts the line "hw.vga.textmode=1" into the > loader.conf file, then the console fonts you get on boot up look > very normal, e.g. to people like me who are accustomed to what the > console fonts looked like in older FreeBSD releases.  However if > you then start up X, and then exit X, the fonts which you then see > on the console are still very normal looking, but they are then > quite a bit smaller (pointsize wise) than before. > > Some people, e.g. one of the people who posted to the above cited > thread, didn't like this.  He felt that the point size of the font > that he saw on the console after exiting X was too small for his > pleasure.  I myself have the exact opposite opinion.  I would like > to have the point size of my console font be small, even _before_ > I start and then exit X.  How can I accomplish this? > > I tried to figure out the answer to this question on my own, but > failed.  Based on various comments in various threads, I got the > impression that perhaps all I needed to do was to add the following > line to my loader.conf file: > > radeonkms_load="YES" > > (Yes, the system in question contains an AMD APU, which in turn > contains a Radeon GPU.) > > Anyway, I added that line to the top of my loader.conf file and then > rebooted.  The result was perfectly awful.  The screen (an ASUS > 1920x1080 > 24 inch monitor) seemed to have been put into 1920x1080 graphics > mode, > however the whole screen was just filled with random pixels of random > colors.  (Ultimatedly I had to boot FreeBSD off of a USB stick so > that > I could edit loader.conf and remove the troublesome > radeonkms_load="YES" > line, just to get the system in question back to a usaable state.) > > So anyway, three questions: > > 1)  What did I do wrong?  Why did adding radeonkms_load="YES" to the > loader.conf file result in a completely unusable system? > > 2)  Is it possible to have freeBSD boot up and use nice small > pointsize > fonts immediately (on a modern 1920x1080 monitor, and with Radeon > graphics > hardware)? > > 3)  If so, how would one do this? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freeb > sd.org" Try to put in /etc/rc.conf: kld_list="radeonkms"