Re: Why doesn't the EFI boot loader want to display the graphical orb logo in its boot menu on an Asus Prime 7590-P motherboard?

No ConOut variable -> we assume the widest possible amount of hardware.
which is why you see efi comconsole as the console.

Can you send me the output of
efivar --device-path 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConIn

It should look like:
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConIn
:
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x0)/Acpi(PNP0303,0x0),/PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x0)/Acpi(PNP0303,0x1)

I've been putting-off falling back to ConIn to determine the default
console device. I'd like
to collect a few more examples before I start.

Warner

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any, by the way, "show console" also shows "efi,comconsole", just like
> "kenv | grep efi" does.
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:40 PM Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My ESP partition has EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi . I copied /boot/loader.efi to
>> EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi when I compiled stand after this commit was added to
>> the main branch:
>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c16e08e5f324aa119c85e10eaabacbd2abdb40e0
>> .
>> I get this output:
>> kenv | grep efi
>> console="efi,comconsole"
>> efi-version="2.70"
>> efi_com_port="0"
>> efi_com_speed="0"
>> efi_max_resolution="1x1"
>> entropy_efi_seed="YES"
>> loader.efi="1"
>>
>> And in the attachment, you can see the output from the loader prompt.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:20 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12. May 2023, at 01:09, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> kenv | grep screen produces this output:
>>>
>>> screensave_load="NO"
>>> screensave_name="green_saver"
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep, the screen is considered to be in text mode and only ascii art is
>>> used (see drawer.lua).
>>>
>>> on loader prompt, does ‘gop get’ or ‘gop list’ output anything?
>>>
>>> if gop does output reasonable data, make sure your loader.efi on ESP is
>>> up to date; if you have no ConOut and ConOutDev variables set (by
>>> firmware), older loader did default to serial port, recent loader does
>>> default to efi,comconsole (see show console on loader prompt).
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> toomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:06 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12. May 2023, at 00:57, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> kenv | grep boot shows me this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you run kenv | grep screen ? in gfx mode, you should see
>>>> screen.depth, screen.height and screen.width
>>>>
>>>> rgds,
>>>> toomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml"
>>>> boot_verbose="YES"
>>>> bootenv_autolist="YES"
>>>> bootenvs[0]="zfs:DESKTOP/poudriere"
>>>> bootenvs_count="1"
>>>> bootfile="kernel"
>>>> cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/ucode.bin"
>>>> entropy_cache_name="/boot/entropy"
>>>> entropy_cache_type="boot_entropy_cache"
>>>> if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
>>>> kernel_path="/boot/kernel"
>>>> kernelname="/boot/kernel/kernel"
>>>> loader_conf_dirs="/boot/loader.conf.d"
>>>> module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/boot/dtb;/boot/dtb/overlays"
>>>> nextboot_conf="/boot/nextboot.conf"
>>>> ram_blacklist_name="/boot/blacklist.txt"
>>>>
>>>> The efivar command shows me:
>>>>
>>>> efivar --device-path 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>> efivar: fetching 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut: No such
>>>> file or directory
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 5:43 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:21 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > On 12. May 2023, at 00:11, Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Guys, there is something that I find puzzling. Why doesn't the EFI
>>>>>> boot loader want to display the graphical orb logo in its boot menu on an
>>>>>> Asus Prime 7590-P motherboard? Is there something quirky about this
>>>>>> particular motherboard that forces the FreeBSD EFI loader to display the
>>>>>> old style ASCII orb logo in its boot menu? Please explain to me the cause
>>>>>> of this problem and if possible, give me a solution to it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There can be two reasons. One is that resolution is low and there is
>>>>>> no space to put the image on. Second one is that the screen is forced to
>>>>>> use “text” mode, which happens when system has configured to have serial
>>>>>> console (redirection).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the latter isn't the case (based on earlier email with Oleg),
>>>>> but we can be sure if he provides:
>>>>> (1) kenv (to make sure boot_xxx are set, maybe via a stray loader.conf)
>>>>> (2) sudo efivar --device-path
>>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>>>
>>>>> It should show something like:
>>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>>> :
>>>>> PciRoot(0x2)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/AcpiAdr(0x80010100),/PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x3)/Serial(0x1)/Uart(115200,8,N,1)/UartFlowCtrl(Hardware)/VenVt100Plus()
>>>>>
>>>>> if there's redirect or something like
>>>>>
>>>>> 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
>>>>> :
>>>>> PciRoot(0x2)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/AcpiAdr(0x80010100)
>>>>>
>>>>> if not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Warner
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>