> you mean you don't get a graphic console right away on that machine?
For what value of "right away"? Autoconf starts printing[%] in (what
looks like the) same text mode used by the bootloader - no visible
mode-change glitch (it's connected to a flatscreen on which mode-change
glitches are reall
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:32:26AM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> you mean you don't get a graphic console right away on that machine? Is this
> BIOS related?
With UEFI you start with genfb.
With BIOS there are three possibilities (ignoring the ega driver or
pcconsole):
- VGA text mode (the def
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:20:53AM -, Michael van Elst wrote:
> VGA has only 8 colors and an intensity attribute. You cannot select
> the "light" ANSI colors. The VGA driver will fail attempts to
> allocate such color attributes, so you get white on black instead.
...
> When DRM takes over, suc
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:20:53AM -, Michael van Elst wrote:
> >But WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_LIGHT_BROWN (I wanted yellow, that looks like
> >the closeset available approximation) and WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLUE?
> >Once wscons switches, everything is as I would expect - but, before
> >that, it's wh
mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes:
>But WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_LIGHT_BROWN (I wanted yellow, that looks like
>the closeset available approximation) and WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLUE?
>Once wscons switches, everything is as I would expect - but, before
>that, it's white on black!
>So there's clearly
>> What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons
>> takes over? [...]
>> So there's clearly something I don't understand going on. What?
> That's all wscons; drmkms taking over isn't the same step as wscons
> taking over.
Okay, that's _one_ thing I didn't understand
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> NetBSD/amd64, 9.1.
>
> What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons
> takes over? When I build a kernel with WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN and no
> WS_KERNEL_BG, I see green on black, both before and after the switch
NetBSD/amd64, 9.1.
What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons
takes over? When I build a kernel with WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN and no
WS_KERNEL_BG, I see green on black, both before and after the switch
from text mode to text-in-graphics mode. WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_BLACK an
