Re: EFI/loader show garbage in console when set to some resolution in loader.conf

> On 6. Sep 2021, at 19:44, Karel Gardas <gardask@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to set EFI console resolution in loader to 1920x1920. This is working fine on all 3 tested* combinations when interrupting loader with '3' key and then
> issueing 'gop set 11' command and then 'boot' command.
> 
> However I'd like to make that permanent and here issue comes. I've tried both:
> 
> - edit /boot/loader.conf by adding
>  'exec="gop set 11"'
> 
> - edit /boot/loader.conf by adding
>  'efi_max_resolution="1920x1920"'
> 
> neither of those works on neither of 3 tested combinations where tested combinations are:

if you have this setting, what does gop get report? With the versions listed below, was the loader in ESP updated too?

> 
> (1) 13.0 release
> (2) 13.0-p4 (stable)
> (3) 14.0 snapshot from 2.9.
> 
> The behavior is still the same. Screen blanks (like it would do gop set 11), then switches to text mode to show loader UI and when kernel
> is loaded it correctly shows that efi resolution is 1920x1920 but then when kernels boot, it produce just garbage to the console like loader and kernel resolution would be off
> by some unknown number...
> 
> Is this is known issue, is there a known workaround for it? Or shall I report it properly to bugzilla?
> 
> Thanks!
> Karel
> 

what you get from: dmesg | grep efifb

rgds,
toomas