Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 23:36:23 +0300 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: Jakob Alvermark <jakob@alvermark.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader goes to LINES=16 and kernel stays on that :( Message-ID: <6C4280EE-2E82-4CE6-AF5D-BF46C894625D@me.com> In-Reply-To: <73eac8ee-1c83-4f96-b0e5-412ab257670d@alvermark.net> References: <988144rr-r83q-1s32-3498-s07r557p6083@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg> <CANCZdfoaY0bBfN7qWwxdVgqvZvD9angj3HEG-834GX_15wg3xA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmon1nH5=obhD_YoboWJYrsSn=G-P2K0eq-KqLy2v-owdtQ@mail.gmail.com> <73eac8ee-1c83-4f96-b0e5-412ab257670d@alvermark.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > On 12. May 2025, at 22:50, Jakob Alvermark <jakob@alvermark.net> wrote: > > On 2025-05-10 22:13, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 10 May 2025 at 13:10, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com <mailto:imp@bsdimp.com>> wrote: >>> Yea. This is due to the new, larger font and a hidden bug. >> >> Hasn't this been fixed in -HEAD? I thought tsoome was working on it. >> >> Oh, here: >> >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258 >> >> Want to try that out and see if it fixes things? >> > This has a very weird effect on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4, 1920x1200 screen) > > The first few lines from the loader looks normal, but then it clears the screen veery sloowly. I can see big blocks of the text being erased. > > After the screen has been cleared, it starts printing "Loading /boot/default/loader.conf" etcetera, with a GIANT FONT, really really slowly. > > Then it switches to the small font (I have "screen.font=8x14" in my loader.conf) and displays the menu quickly. > > giant font hints that you do not have loader.efi updated in ESP, that is you have the font but not D50258. (D50258 probably has to have || in its check;) The screen clear is something I’m working about now. There are some things to change about it - we have screen map and should use it to skip “clearing” the clear areas, but resolution and font changes need a bit of attention. rgds, toomas [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12. May 2025, at 22:50, Jakob Alvermark <jakob@alvermark.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2025-05-10 22:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAJ-Vmon1nH5=obhD_YoboWJYrsSn=G-P2K0eq-KqLy2v-owdtQ@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><br> </div> <br> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 10 May 2025 at 13:10, Warner Losh <<a href="mailto:imp@bsdimp.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">imp@bsdimp.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="auto">Yea. This is due to the new, larger font and a hidden bug. </div> </blockquote> <div><br> </div> <div>Hasn't this been fixed in -HEAD? I thought tsoome was working on it.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Oh, here:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258</a></div>; <div><br> </div> <div>Want to try that out and see if it fixes things?</div> <br> </div> </div> </blockquote><p>This has a very weird effect on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4, 1920x1200 screen)</p><p>The first few lines from the loader looks normal, but then it clears the screen veery sloowly. I can see big blocks of the text being erased.</p><p>After the screen has been cleared, it starts printing "Loading /boot/default/loader.conf" etcetera, with a GIANT FONT, really really slowly.</p><p>Then it switches to the small font (I have "screen.font=8x14" in my loader.conf) and displays the menu quickly.</p><p><br> </p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>giant font hints that you do not have loader.efi updated in ESP, that is you have the font but not D50258. (D50258 probably has to have || in its check;)</div><div><br></div><div>The screen clear is something I’m working about now. There are some things to change about it - we have screen map and should use it to skip “clearing” the clear areas, but resolution and font changes need a bit of attention.</div><div><br></div><div>rgds,</div><div>toomas</div><br></body></html>home | help
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