Re: Loader goes to LINES=16 and kernel stays on that :(

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 22:54:00 UTC
On Sun, 11 May 2025, Toomas Soome wrote:

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>> On 11. May 2025, at 00:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 10 May 2025, Toomas Soome wrote:
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>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258
>> [..]
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>>> It would be really nice if you could test it.Thanks,
>>> Toomas
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>> On it;  I'll reboot as soon as buildworld dedicded to rebuild half my obj
>> despite only applied the one change.  I thought on main this is all
>> incremental these days. *sigh*.
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>> I assume there is no way to fix this manually as a user (change the settings
>> from within loader) at least for the next stage (kernel)?
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>> I don't know much about all this;  I tried vidcontrol later from the console
>> to at least be able to read a few more lines only to get some ioctl errors.
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> oh, yes, you can set font manually, set screen.font=16x32 for example. Only the autoselect with EDID data available was missing the check. manual selection and autoselect without EDID is ok.

Well, thanks to D50258 I don't need to :)  Worked.  Thank you.

Tested by:	bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7