RPi4 Status and xorg behavior

[Mark Millard]

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> On 2021-Mar-8, at 12:54, Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> Am 08.03.2021 um 21:44 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com>:
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>> I tried 13.0-RC1 with the rpi-firmware updated:…
>> ...
>> Note: It does get the large font display.
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> So you have X11 working fine in 13.0-RC1(unchanged download?) while not working fine in 
> FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210304-483c6da3a20-257149.img(unchanged except 1.20210303)
> ??
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> changes to the firmware fixed the „big letter“-output in X for me in ...483c6da3a20-257149.img…

The large font issue shows before the login prompt happens:
the kernel message and such. No need for X11 to be involved.

But the issue is caused by the config.txt line:

hdmi_safe=1

and commenting it out or deleting it and rebooting put things
back to what I saw in my non-debug main-build environment.

I now have:

#hdmi_safe=1

in the 13.0-RC1 media's config.txt to avoid the huge font
display and such.

hdmi_safe=1 mode likely makes more environments display at
all. So there is likely a tradeoff in having it by default.

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