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 > > > >
