Re: ultra tiny characters on console

apparently everything is in the right place:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  bin  2048 Oct 16 14:40 /etc/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.bin

elios# pkg_info
radeondrm-firmware-20170119 firmware binary images for radeondrm(4) driver



On 10/25/18 9:21 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 08:23:29PM -0700, Veraldi Riccardo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just installed OpenBSD 6.4 on my Ultra 45.
>>
>> right before completing the boot process and right before showing the login
>> prompt the VGA console does a reset, the screen becomes black and when it
>> appears again the character size is so tiny you can barely see it and the
>> text console is kind of replicated 6 times in a row on the same screen. I
>> would post a picture but I think it's not allowed. I can blindly log in as
>> root on the console and launching startx opens X11 which works, anyway the
>> terminal console is really unusable like this.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can fix this issue ?
>>
>> on 6.3 this did not happen.
>>
>> these are the most significant messages from dmesg they could be related to
>> the problem:
>>
>> radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R300_cp.bin"
>> error: [drm:pid0:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
> Is /etc/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.bin missing?
> radeondrm-firmware package not installed?
>
>> drm:pid0:r300_startup *ERROR* failed initializing CP (-2).
>> drm:pid0:r300_init *ERROR* Disabling GPU acceleration
>> Can't enable IRQ/MSI because no handler is installed
>> Can't enable IRQ/MSI because no handler is installed
>> Can't enable IRQ/MSI because no handler is installed
>> radeondrm0: 1280x1024, 8bpp
>> wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, sun emulation), using wskbd0
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> Rick
>>
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