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

[Cy Schubert]

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, others HDMI. Each has a different video card. The three downstairs are servers, no 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 morning, nothing. The puzzling thing is that the commits between Jan 5 and now look innocuous.


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