Thinkpad x230 + FreeBSD 11.0 + EFI console problem

[Bryan Everly]

Hello All,

I've installed FreeBSD 11.0 on my machine and when I boot, I get:

Booting...
Start @ 0xffffffffff802ff0000 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size        0x0, 0x0
dimensionns    1024 x 768
stride               1024
masks             0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff0000

Then it seems like all of the remaining output shows up on the top line of the display scrolling past. Everything appears to function because I was able to log in (even though I can't see anything).

Any idea what I can do to get it to use the whole screen so I can actually use this laptop? I figured an x230 would be a pretty standard piece of kit for folks.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Bryan Everly]

So, I kept digging and found this article that suggested loading the i915 kernel module and flipping to a graphical console. It actually worked but I'd love to understand what the correct way is to solve the original issue if someone has any ideas.

Thanks!