can I use the display native resolution on vty0 as on any other vty's using KMS ?
karu.pruun
karu.pruun at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 04:37:14 PDT 2020
Hello
I should clarify that when you load the drm driver (i915 or radeon, as
root on the console using 'kldload i915' or 'kldload radeon') the
initial buffer restriction does not apply any more. The drm drivers
allocate their own framebuffers, so all ttyv-s will have the same
column x row configuration.
In the pre-drm situation, as explained earlier, the system tries to
work out an optimal column x row configuration based on the
information it gets from BIOS or UEFI. In the case of BIOS, you get
VGA modes; we don't have VESA at the moment, yet, if I'm correct. In
the case of UEFI, the system gets the resolution from UEFI and then
tries to work out the best column x row configuration under the
restriction that it must be max 160 column x 50 rows, font width is 8
and the final configuration must preserve font scaling. For instance,
on my laptop this works out precisely as described:
- UEFI tells the resolution is 1680x1050 (X x Y)
- Font width is 8
- 1680 / 8 = 210, too large
- increase font width x 2
- 1680 / 16 = 105, yes under 160
- 1050 / 32 (font height is 16) = 32.8, round to nearest int, this is
32; yes it's under 50
- final setup: 105x32
The 105x32 is exactly what I get by default on my laptop if I set no
loader variables.
I am not sure what if anything has changed between DragonFly 5.4 and
master. The syscons driver I believe is exactly the same. The BIOS and
UEFI setups would give different results though.
I suggest you try to calculate the column x row configuration as
described above. In UEFI setup, you can see the modes as follows: at
boot, go to boot prompt (press '9'), and then do 'gop list' to see
what modes UEFI gives you. You can set the mode there too. (Give 'gop'
to see the command.) Enter 'boot' to continue booting. I guess you can
set the desired mode by default via a boot loader variable; but I
don't know what it would be.
The graphical target etc stuff is linux speak, and probably systemd;
it has no relevance at all for DragonFly.
Hope this helps.
Peeter
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:33 AM nacho Lariguet <lariguet at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 13:53:22 -0700
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> > > 1. Re: can I use the display native resolution on vty0 as on any
> > > other vty's using KMS ? (nacho Lariguet)
> > > 2. how do I label (meaning adding a reminder caption) to any
> > > given BSD slice ? (nacho Lariguet)
> > >
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> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 18:06:14 -0300
> > > From: nacho Lariguet <lariguet at gmail.com>
> > > To: users at dragonflybsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: can I use the display native resolution on vty0 as on any
> > > other vty's using KMS ?
> > > Message-ID: <20200808180614.66f67761 at leonov>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > >
> > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:26:35 -0700
> > > Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Your picture looks to me like the standard "UNIX multi-user mode" perhaps
> > > > you should select a graphical target somehow. Are making a multi-head
> > > boot,
> > > > or bringing up each tty simultaneously?
> > > > Jonathan Engwall
> > >
> > > ... standard "UNIX multi-user mode" ... sure: do I did try/ask for
> > > anything else ?
> > >
> > > I'm afraid I'm not following
> > >
> >
> > Your photo shows the BSD/UNIX default to boot to a root system
> > administrator account. To change this you will need to boot to a graphical
> > target, or launch a multi head, or something relevant to what you are doing.
> > I don't know what you are doing. Maybe puppet would work for you?
> > Jonathan Engwall
>
> OK. Let me be more clear.
>
> I want to start using dragonFly ... daily.
>
> So the first step is to install it on the hardware that for whatever reasons
> I currently have, get it running without major issues, and last but not least,
> set a working environment that suits my needs, which ends in the following fact:
>
> What I want is dragonFly running ... WITHOUT X11 !
>
> I just want to develop and work with/on the system console, which in our case,
> happens to be syscons since we still don't have vt/wcons/whatever which means
> no native UTF-8 console for the time being.
>
> I feel comfortable working/developing without a major stack like X because:
>
> - I'm learning BSD and the best way to learn something like this is bottom to top
> not the other way around. This is exactly what I've done with arch-linux some years
> ago, I just installed a barebones system and from then on I kept learning and
> needless to say I learned a lot of thinks of linux inner workings which I doubt
> I could have learned with the zillion packages required by X and any given desktop
> environment with all their complexity and all the duplicacte functionality. Prior
> to start using linux I developed for many many years on, yes, Microsoft products
> and whatnot. Eventually moving to linux was so alien that I wanted to start, I say
> it again: bottom to top, not the other way around.
>
> - That said, I eventually want to move my primary workstation to dragonFly and a
> couple of servers, and I decided, wisely or not, that I want to move one server
> first because the server won't need X etc etc and albeit being a file/web server
> to begin with, it will give me a working environment so I can start coding in BSD,
> meaning primarily C.
>
> - Everything I need to code do not requires X at all: just a working system console.
> I learned to use VIM in the past few years and feels quite comfortably with it
> meaning I totally customized it (even I coded many syntax files from scratch), and
> in my arch linux console environment I have everything I want to.
>
> That will give you a detailed overview of what I am after with dragonFly.
>
> I need a couple of things:
>
> - digital video at max resolution: 1920x1200 in my case ... got it on my test-bed
> desktop and will attempt to get it running on my PowerEdge servers in a couple of
> days I guess.
>
> - a working US international keyboard layout (us-acentos) ... still not working
>
> - a UTF-8 native console ... I know I should give up on this if I want to use this OS
>
> - a custom script in CSH to execute after booting a liveCD that formats/installs/
> configures everything as needed ... almost done, testing it right now.
>
> From there on I'm planing to use what for whatever reasons I am currently using in arch:
>
> - BIND
> - nginx
> - postgreSQL
>
> Nothing special, all are in dPorts and I can customize and recompile them as needed.
>
> WHEN I get this server working I will start fiddling with X11 on my future BSD workstation.
>
> Sorry if this answer was a bit long but I hope you'll understand where I am standing
> right now.
>
> > I don't know what you are doing. Maybe puppet would work for you?
>
> I'll eventually get it running with/without your support.
>
> Thanks for your advice, and I mean it.
>
> PS: You will note that I am asking a lot of questions on the mailing list, I read the man
> pages, always, that won't mean that some thing can goes unnoticed to me at any given time
> or that simply I just forgot about some x detail I read before, there's a LOT to learn
> and the fact that I am asking is because I am a NEWBIE to BSD in general and I want to
> learn, nothing out of the ordinary I guess. If that irritates you just ignore me. I will
> be fine.
>
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > Message: 2
> > > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 15:04:42 -0300
> > > From: nacho Lariguet <lariguet at gmail.com>
> > > To: dragonFlyBSD user list <users at dragonflybsd.org>
> > > Subject: how do I label (meaning adding a reminder caption) to any
> > > given BSD slice ?
> > > Message-ID: <20200809150442.7f5bc89d at leonov>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > >
> > > ie: the "label:" field shown under the "diskid:" one with disklabel64
> > >
> > > It seems there is no switch (maybe -l) on disklabel64 (when using -w) to
> > > label a slice.
> > >
> > > eg:
> > >
> > > # /dev/da0s1:
> > > #
> > > # Calculated informational fields for the slice:
> > > #
> > > # boot space: 1044480 bytes
> > > # data space: 175691776 blocks # 171574.00 MB (179908378624 bytes)
> > > #
> > > # NOTE: The partition data base and stop are physically
> > > # aligned instead of slice-relative aligned.
> > > #
> > > # All byte equivalent offsets must be aligned.
> > > #
> > > diskid: af1b4686-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4
> > > label: ... HOW TO SET THIS ONE ?
> > > boot2 data base: 0x000000001000
> > > partitions data base: 0x000000100000
> > > partitions data stop: 0x0029e3700000
> > > backup label: 0x0029e37ff000
> > > total size: 0x0029e3800000 # 171576.00 MB
> > > alignment: 4096
> > > display block size: 1024 # for partition display and edit only
> > >
> > > 16 partitions:
> > > # size offset fstype fsuuid
> > > a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD # 1024.000MB
> > > d: 33554432 1048576 HAMMER2 # 32768.000MB
> > > e: 134217728 34603008 HAMMER2 # 131072.000MB
> > > f: 6871040 168820736 HAMMER2 # 6710.000MB
> > > a-stor_uuid: eb61372a-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4
> > > d-stor_uuid: eb613733-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4
> > > e-stor_uuid: eb613739-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4
> > > f-stor_uuid: eb61373e-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4
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