RPi4 Status and xorg behavior

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Mar-8, at 12:53, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2021-Mar-8, at 00:14, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-Mar-7, at 17:10, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> In the interests of exploration, I tinkered a bit more with
>>> my Pi4 running the latest -current snapshot. Here are a few
>>> observations:
>> 
>> You may want to be explicit about the build version
>> involved (last commit involved on what branch).
>> 
>> My notes below are from a non-debugt build based on
>> main bad9fa56620e (CommitDate: 2021-03-06 21:46:28
>> +0000). Used on a RPi4B 8GiByte.
>> 
>>> Screen resolution seems to be about 30 lines by 90 columns,
>>> on a commonplace Dell 1920 by 1080 HDMI display. Mouse and
>>> keyboard work correctly.
>> 
>> My boot sequence for the RPi4B 8 GiByte shows (when I have
>> the HDMI display attached, which I usually do not):
>> 
>> EFI framebuffer information:
>> addr, size     0x3e2fe000, 0x7e9000
>> dimensions     1920 x 1080
>> stride         1920
>> masks          0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
>> . . .
>> fb0: <BCM2835 VT framebuffer driver> on simplebus0
>> fb0: keeping existing fb bpp of 32
>> fbd0 on fb0
>> WARNING: Device "fb" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
>> VT: Replacing driver "efifb" with new "fb".
>> fb0: 1920x1080(1920x1080 at 0,0) 32bpp
>> fb0: fbswap: 1, pitch 7680, base 0x3e2fe000, screen_size 8355840
>> . . .
>> 
>> I use:
>> 
>> if [ -x /usr/bin/resizewin ] ; then /usr/bin/resizewin -z ; fi
>> 
>> in various ~/.profile files and after logging-in doing a
>> "stty -a" shows as its first line:
>> 
>> speed 9600 baud; 67 rows; 240 columns;
>> 
>> Thus figures seem accurate.
>> 
>> I doubt that it matters but /boot/loader.conf does have:
>> 
>> boot_multicons="YES"
>> boot_serial="YES"
>> 
> 
> I tried booting 13.0-RC1 with the updated RPi4 firmware
> substituted and in that context I do see the large font
> on the display from that combination.
> 
> My main context does not have the config.txt line:
> 
> hdmi_safe=1
> 
> and if I comment it out on 13.0-RC1:
> 
> #hdmi_safe=1
> 
> and then boot again I end up with the same as my
> main enviroment was showing instead of the huge
> font showing.

Correcting my ThreadRipper display size mistake . . .

>> FYI:
>> On the ThreadRipper I do control things explicitly
>> via /boot/loader.conf having:
>> 
>> screen.textmode="0"
>> screen.font="8x16"
>> 
>> but the context is a 2560 x 1440 display and there

Really 1920 x 1200: I was thinking of the wrong
display.

>> is no serial console set up for this context. I've
>> not investigated such things on any other type of
>> context. "stty -a" ends up reporting:
>> 
>> speed 9600 baud; 75 rows; 240 columns;

At 1920 x 1200 the 75 rows and 240 columns makes
more sense vs. 1920 x 1080.

>> (System built from same sources as the RPi4B's
>> system was, also non-debug style.)

===
Mark Millard
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