Fujitsu Lifebook E751 (iGPU: HM65): distorted console with UEFI boot

[Toomas Soome]

Note about hw.vga.textmode: this tunable has no meaning for UEFI - first of all, there is no API to change to VGA text mode in UEFI, secondly, there may or may not be VGA (firmware) at all. We only do land in kernel with linear framebuffer mode active and all we have is information about that mode (FB address, size and color bits). In *worst* case, it is actually even possible that we only have UEFI API for boot loader and no linear framebuffer for kernel.

distorted console after kernel start means that either the kernel efifb driver does something wrong, or the console device gfx mode change did happen but the FB driver was not properly informed about the fact.

rgds,
toomas


> On 28 Nov 2018, at 11:51, O. Hartmann <ohartmann at walstatt.org> wrote:
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> I ran into some trouble booting off a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 (firmware is latest, r1.22
> from 2013). The E751 is of model series S26391-K326-V100 and equipted with a Core
> i5-2520M CPU and supposed to be also equipted with a iGPU HM65 according to the
> techniscal specifications from Fujitsu.
> 
> Trying to boot off 12-PRERELEASE/12-RC2 and/or 13-CURRENT (most recent I could grap from
> the download page), the screen becomes distorted immediately after the kernel has
> loaded and initialised/booted. The screen is at the loader's all right so far.
> 
> Trying to disable graphics mode via escaping to the loader's prompt and setting 
> 
> set hw.vga.textmode=1
> 
> subsequently loading the kernel and then booting, doesn't help. The screen is distorted
> again. The notebook seems UEFI only and doesn't boot off from MBR partioned devices (i.e.
> NanoBSD I used to use).
> 
> Loading /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko
> 
> after manually having loaded /boot/kernel/kernel (and not booted yet) doesn't change
> anything either.
> 
> Booting off and installing Linux (Ubuntu, Mint so far, most revent verions I can get my
> hands on) is no problem. The console works fine from the beginning and so the graphics.
> 
> Is there a chance to get a FreeBSD booting the easy way? 
> 
> The provided boot images do not contain any of the graphics/drm-stable|next|legacy-kmod
> stuff, I tried to load i915kms.ko off from /boot/modules/ (were those modules from the
> ports are supposed to reside) but no chance.
> 
> Before starting investigating this issue further I'd like to ask wether there is a
> general support provided or is that type of notebook dead matter for FreeBSD of the
> modern kind?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> oh
> 
> p.s. please CC me, I'm not subscribing all lists.
> 
> - -- 
> O. Hartmann
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