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.schub...@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <c...@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. In message <alpine.GSO.2.20.2101061442250.66723@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@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 <tso...@me.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On 6. Jan 2021, at 12:33, Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 2021-Jan-02 20:09:25 +0000, Toomas Soome <tso...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-src-main To unsubscribe, send any mail to "dev-commits-src-main-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
