Hi!
I boot FreeBSD 11.3 on an older Laptop, Acer, with OpenChrome videocard... and some lines on the console are not displayed, which is pretty annoying, since you don't see the root prompt, the console prompt...
I get displayed 25 lines of text, but the console "thinks" there are more, something like 30.
I swapped HD's from another laptop, which had the same identical 1024x768 screen but with more standard ATI card and had no issues.
I am not running a graphic framebuffer, /boot/loader.conf has no configuration regarding screen is set.
Interestingly, X11/Xorg do run fine!
I expect than on an odd videocard, maybe vesa is not working... but "classic dumb terminal"
Fine, I can live without fancy console on this older thing, but I need to have a working text console... to have a proper prompt!
Any ideas?
I boot FreeBSD 11.3 on an older Laptop, Acer, with OpenChrome videocard... and some lines on the console are not displayed, which is pretty annoying, since you don't see the root prompt, the console prompt...
I get displayed 25 lines of text, but the console "thinks" there are more, something like 30.
I swapped HD's from another laptop, which had the same identical 1024x768 screen but with more standard ATI card and had no issues.
I am not running a graphic framebuffer, /boot/loader.conf has no configuration regarding screen is set.
Interestingly, X11/Xorg do run fine!
I expect than on an odd videocard, maybe vesa is not working... but "classic dumb terminal"
kldload vesa
fails... and dmesg says:
Code:
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xc6213a60, 0) error 19
sysctl_unregister_oid: failed(22) to unregister sysctl(vesa)
vidcontrol -i mode
shows no modes.Fine, I can live without fancy console on this older thing, but I need to have a working text console... to have a proper prompt!
Any ideas?