Re: boot loader blank screen

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_at_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.
>>>>
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> 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
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> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #24 main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 
> 12:32:28 CET 2021
>     root_at_srv-01.thuis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KRNL amd64
> FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 (git_at_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  _at_ 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.