Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:21:40 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot loader blank screen Message-ID: <c8470083-b2f5-4df8-1aca-f21b8616e4b6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b49a7816-533c-67ed-d263-2551a2a04de8@gmail.com> References: <358513ba-699f-8af8-ed4e-a08fd1012db0@codenetworks.net> <F9A68339-4C8D-45C2-9B17-B432E122785F@me.com> <b49a7816-533c-67ed-d263-2551a2a04de8@gmail.com>
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On 15/01/2021 20:06, Johan Hendriks wrote: > > On 15/01/2021 14:51, Toomas Soome wrote: >> Could you please check latest current now?:) >> >> Thanks, >> Toomas >> >>> On 13. Jan 2021, at 20:13, Santiago Martinez <sm@codenetworks.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, +1 on this, i still have issue on a supermicro. >>> >>> Santi >>> >>>> On 1/8/21 8:11 PM, John Kennedy wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:19:12PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: >>>>> I saw your commit of 99870c70bac7 (loader: rewrite >>>>> vidc_install_font), >>>>> 31c2bcad7e44 (loader: remove left over call to unsetenv()), and >>>>> belatedly >>>>> babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b (hw.vga.textmode -> >>>>> screen.textmode). >>>>> >>>>> Didn't fix the blank screen, and I thought the hw.vga.textmode >>>>> workaround >>>>> had broken until I read that commit fully (will try it next reboot). >>>>> >>>>> At main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c3 right now (also past your >>>>> f1829643c476. >>>> At main-c255756-g40903394bf48, still no love for my system yet. >>>> FYI, >>>> screen.textmode=0 continued to work around the issue, as expected. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> > I found out my desktop pc that i updated today also has a blank screen. > In my case setting the following helps > > screen.textmode=1 > vbe_max_resolution=800x600 > > And thank you for that lovely boot screen and awesome font, very neat! > > My release is main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 12:32:28 CET 2021 > > This is on a old intel core 2 > Copyright (c) 1992-2021 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #24 main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 > 12:32:28 CET 2021 > root@srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64 > FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git > llvmorg-11.0.1-rc2-0-g43ff75f2c3f) > VT(vbefb): resolution 1280x1024 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz (2327.55-MHz > K8-class CPU) > Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x6fb Family=0x6 Model=0xf Stepping=11 > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > > Features2=0xe3fd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> > > AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) HLT,PAUSE > TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics > > I found out that i have this line in my /boot/loader.conf file. loader_logo="orb" if i leave that in, than only this setting works and only the text based boot screen works. screen.textmode=1 I then can not use the vbe_max_resolution="800x600" setting as i get no screen (in the top it looks like i have some small consoles of about 20 pixels high in all collors.) If i remover the loader_logo="orb" line, then i can use vbe_max_resolution="800x600" and i see the console but only in 16 colors i think. I will rebuild to the current of this moment and see if the latest works.
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