Re: boot loader blank screen

I should add my experience to this since its different and haven't seen 
anyone else mention it.
I see the new boot loader, it's not blank, but its large text, and it's 
very SLOW.
I can see each char drawn, and then when it gets to the bottom and has 
to redraw all the lines to scroll up for new lines, it loads so slowly 
it's like watching an 8086 on a 300 baud modem, or slower! Takes like an 
extra 30 seconds to get through all the loaded modules, then back to 
normal speed boot with the same large font.

added these lines and everything is back to normal with new appearance 
and small font like before, and at normal speed.
hw.vga.textmode="0"
vbe_max_resolution=1280x800

also removed the old lines for the amdgpu efi problem with no effect so 
I assume those are no longer necessary and why I'm seeing this change?
#hw.syscons.disable=1
#kern.vty=vt
#hw.vga.textmode=1

am using X and everything seems fine for now

system:
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G, using integrated vega GPU
ASRock B450M Pro4
13-current



On 1/5/21 8:54 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 12:46:08AM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
>> ...
>>> the 58661b3ba9eb should hopefully fix the loader text mode issue, it would be cool if you can verify:)
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> toomas
>>
>> I think, I got it fixed (at least idwer did confirm for his system, thanks). If you can test this patch: http://148-52-235-80.sta.estpak.ee/0001-loader-rewrite-font-install.patch <http://148-52-235-80.sta.estpak.ee/0001-loader-rewrite-font-install.patch> it would be really nice.
>>
>> thanks,
>> toomas
> 
> I tested with each of the following "stanzas' in /boot/loader.conf,
> using vt (vs. syscons) in each case (though that breaks video reset
> on resume after suspend):
> 
> # hw.vga.textmode="0"
> vbe_max_resolution=1280x800
> 
> This works, and provides a graphical console (depth 32).
> 
> 
> hw.vga.textmode="0"
> # vbe_max_resolution=1280x800
> 
> This also works, and provides a low-resolution (and depth 16)
> graphical console (800x320 or something similar, IIRC).
> 
> 
> # hw.vga.textmode="0"
> # vbe_max_resolution=1280x800
> 
> (That is, not specifying anything for hw.vga.textmode or
> vbe_max_resolution.)
> 
> This boots OK, but I see no kernel probe messages or single- to
> multi-user mode messages.  I can use (e.g.) Ctl+Alt+F2 to switch to
> vty1, see a "login: " prompt, and that (also) works.  (This is the
> initial symptom I had reported.)
> 
> 
> hw.vga.textmode="1"
> # vbe_max_resolution=1280x800
> 
> This works -- boots OK, and I see kernel probe (&c.) messages; this is a
> text console (mostly blue text; some white, against a dark background.
> It's a medium-light blue, so it's easy enough to read (unlike a navy
> blue, for example).
> 
> 
> FreeBSD g1-55.catwhisker.org 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #113 main-c255601-g9fd96b416c45-dirty: Tue Jan  5 17:24:45 PST 2021     root_at_g1-55.catwhisker.org:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/CANARY  amd64
> 
> Peace,
> david
>