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

[Dan Mack]

Ack ... that worked for me.   Back in business.

Dan

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Cy Schubert wrote:

> Add screen.textmode=1 to /boot/loader.conf. You'll get text and depending
> on your card the font may or may not be acceptable.
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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> 	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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>
> In message <alpine.GSO.2.20.2101061442250.66723 at localhost.local>, Dan Mack
> writ
> es:
>> I just builtworld/kernel:
>>
>>   FreeBSD nvserve 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #7
>>   main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c: Wed Jan  6 14:23:16 CST 2021
>>   root at nvserve:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>> from source ...
>>
>>   VGA console is still completly broken/in-operative.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Peter Jeremy via dev-commits-src-all wrote:
>>
>>> On 2021-Jan-06 14:50:38 +0200, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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=3630506b9daec9167a89bc45256
>> 38ea45a00769e
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 uncondit
>> ionally, in addition to font files, we also need it to generate C code for bu
>> ilt in font (used when there are no /boot/fonts).
>>>
>>> That seems to assume that fonts are needed at all - I found this bug on
>>> a Cloud instance that uses a serial console and has no real or simulated
>>> graphical display "hardware".
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Jeremy
>>>
>>
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