Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:20:05 GMT From: Frank Reppin <frankreppin@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/166262: [syscons] syscons issue on DN2800MT Message-ID: <201203230020.q2N0K5rh002919@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/166262; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Frank Reppin <frankreppin@googlemail.com> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/166262: [syscons] syscons issue on DN2800MT Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:17:41 +0100 Hellos and thankyou for looking into this PR! On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hmm... =A0It seems these platforms don't fully initialize VGA registers. > According to the product pages, this board has "Intel Fast Boot > Technology", which sounds like "we don't care about legacy VGA modes > any more" to me. ;-) well - when attempting to boot from the memstick images I can clearly see everything - the whole 'BTX loader' stuff and everything up to and until the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot menu. Up to this point everything looks really ok. The 'messed up display' starts right after pressing '1' to boot. Shouldn't it show the 'BTX loader' stuff garbled as well then if they don't care about legacy VGA modes then? > I saw Intel's video presentation on YouTube and it showed a BIOS > option to disable "Fast Boot" from Boot menu. =A0Try to disable it if > you have something similar, especially "Video Optimization" or > something. Just re-checked on this. Those boot options are 'disabled' by default (and disabled as well in my setup). According to the inline BIOS help they won't do any magic beside not showing the fancy Intel logo graphic. They too state clearly there that this won't affect capabilities when it co= mes to boot the OS. There aren't any more video optimization inside the BIOS. Please let me know if I can be of help to get this sorted. cheers, frank\
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