git: 3630506b9dae - main - loader: implement framebuffer console

[Cy Schubert]

In message <202101061756.106HuYq9002766 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
writes:
> In message <alpine.GSO.2.20.2101061138230.66723 at localhost.local>, Dan Mack 
> writ
> es:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Dan Mack wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > >
> > >> In message <51035B54-FF30-41EE-BC4A-3D4E0ABD1B13 at me.com>, Toomas Soome
> > >> writes:
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>>> On 6. Jan 2021, at 12:33, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> On 2021-Jan-02 20:09:25 +0000, Toomas Soome <tsoome at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> :
> > >>>>> The branch main has been updated by tsoome:
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> URL: 
> > >>>>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3630506b9daec9167a89bc4525638
> > >>> ea45a00769e
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Note that this commit adds a hard build dependency on vtfontcvt(8)
> > >>>> but that tool is depends on the WITH_VT build option.  I suspect
> > >>>> that stand/fonts should be likewise dependent on WITH_VT
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Peter Jeremy
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Thanks for pointing this out. We actually need to build vtfontcvt 
> > >>> uncondition
> > >>> ally, in addition to font files, we also need it to generate C code for
>  
> > >>> built
> > >>>  in font (used when there are no /boot/fonts).
> > >> 
> > >> Is this why my consoles are blank during boot? My laptop is blank during
> > >> boot until X starts. My three machines downstairs don't run X and remain
> > >> blank. There is no way to enable the display.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > Sorry my reply got garbled ...  My console is an hdmi connected monitor. 
> > The display works until FreeBSD boots and then it's just blank.  Something 
> > is broke; I am doing full buildworld / buildkernel (GENERIC builds) from 
> > the tip of main.
>
> All four machines here exhibit the same problem. Some are VGA connected, othe
> rs HDMI. Each has a different video card. The three downstairs are servers, n
> o X, using the video cards in text mode. The laptop has an HD3000, uses X, X 
> works but boot messages, like the three downstairs are black holes.
>
> I suspect it's some commit from Jan 5 as messages did display then. This morn
> ing, nothing. The puzzling thing is that the commits between Jan 5 and now lo
> ok innocuous.

It's changed to screen.textmode. The font is hard on the eyes.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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