Hello Community,
I'm new to FreeBSD and installed it a couple of days ago.
I was wondering if my hardware (Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p) is too old or too exotic when I saw that the video was disturbed while installing. The Monitor is also flickering.
Please see the photos.
The first menu appears OK, but after loading the kernel, I think I get the wrong text geometry on my console.
Now I know, that I can add ' hw.vga.textmode=1 ' to /boot/loader.conf which solves this issue.
But then I can't switch (CTRL + ALT + F1...) between X and the consoles anymore. The box hangs after switching from X to a console.
Adding ' i915kms_load="YES" ' to /boot/loader.conf works, but it takes a while before the console enters the new video mode. With this setting the flickering time is shorter, but everything else works fine.
Do I have to compile a custom kernel to solve this issue?
I would like to enable a splash image while booting, that doesn't flicker.
Thanks for reading and any advice.
I'm new to FreeBSD and installed it a couple of days ago.
I was wondering if my hardware (Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p) is too old or too exotic when I saw that the video was disturbed while installing. The Monitor is also flickering.
Please see the photos.
The first menu appears OK, but after loading the kernel, I think I get the wrong text geometry on my console.
Now I know, that I can add ' hw.vga.textmode=1 ' to /boot/loader.conf which solves this issue.
But then I can't switch (CTRL + ALT + F1...) between X and the consoles anymore. The box hangs after switching from X to a console.
Adding ' i915kms_load="YES" ' to /boot/loader.conf works, but it takes a while before the console enters the new video mode. With this setting the flickering time is shorter, but everything else works fine.
Do I have to compile a custom kernel to solve this issue?
I would like to enable a splash image while booting, that doesn't flicker.
Thanks for reading and any advice.