Re: RPi4 Status and xorg behavior

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2021-Mar-8, at 00:14, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:



On 2021-Mar-7, at 17:10, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:


>> In the interests of exploration, I tinkered a bit more with
>> my Pi4 running the latest -current snapshot. Here are a few
>> observations:
> 
> You may want to be explicit about the build version
> involved (last commit involved on what branch).
> 
> My notes below are from a non-debugt build based on
> main bad9fa56620e (CommitDate: 2021-03-06 21:46:28
> +0000). Used on a RPi4B 8GiByte.
> 
>> Screen resolution seems to be about 30 lines by 90 columns,
>> on a commonplace Dell 1920 by 1080 HDMI display. Mouse and
>> keyboard work correctly.
> 
> My boot sequence for the RPi4B 8 GiByte shows (when I have
> the HDMI display attached, which I usually do not):
> 
> EFI framebuffer information:
> addr, size     0x3e2fe000, 0x7e9000
> dimensions     1920 x 1080
> stride         1920
> masks          0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
> . . .
> fb0: <BCM2835 VT framebuffer driver> on simplebus0
> fb0: keeping existing fb bpp of 32
> fbd0 on fb0
> WARNING: Device "fb" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
> VT: Replacing driver "efifb" with new "fb".
> fb0: 1920x1080(1920x1080@0,0) 32bpp
> fb0: fbswap: 1, pitch 7680, base 0x3e2fe000, screen_size 8355840
> . . .
> 
> I use:
> 
> if [ -x /usr/bin/resizewin ] ; then /usr/bin/resizewin -z ; fi
> 
> in various ~/.profile files and after logging-in doing a
> "stty -a" shows as its first line:
> 
> speed 9600 baud; 67 rows; 240 columns;
> 
> Thus figures seem accurate.
> 
> I doubt that it matters but /boot/loader.conf does have:
> 
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> 

I tried booting 13.0-RC1 with the updated RPi4 firmware
substituted and in that context I do see the large font
on the display from that combination.

My main context does not have the config.txt line:

hdmi_safe=1

and if I comment it out on 13.0-RC1:

#hdmi_safe=1

and then boot again I end up with the same as my
main enviroment was showing instead of the huge
font showing.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)

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