Boot messages scroll off bottom of screen on ThinkPad T580 with drm-next-kmod-20180822

[Rebecca Cran]

On 9/13/18 7:24 PM, Rebecca Cran via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> I'm not sure when this started, but I've recently updated my kernel to
> r338669 (12.0-ALPHA5) and am running drm-next-kmod-4.11-g20180822on a
> ThinkPad T530. Now when I boot, after the i915kms.ko loads the boot
> messages start scrolling off the bottom of the screen, and I can only
> see them by hitting Enter lots of times. As suggested on gitter.im I
> tried running drm-devel-kmod, but it caused the screen to blank and the
> machine to apparently hang (as in
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2018-September/021588.html,
> but the caps lock key on the built-in keyboard kept working).


I've just realized that the built-in display shows the boot messages
correctly, with the cursor remaining at the bottom of the screen: it's
the external DisplayPort monitor that's having them scroll off the bottom.


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Rebecca