UEFI console font strangeness

[Christoph Harder]

Hello Justin,

neither trying amdgpu_load="YES" nor radeon_load="YES" did work.
Anyway, since the legacy option does work, I'll use it for the moment.

Thank you anyway.
-Christoph

Am 10.07.2023 um 07:22 schrieb Christoph Harder:
> Hello,
> 
> yes that screenshot looks a lot like it.
> 
> Is it correct, that I would require either the the "radeo" or the "amdgpu" module instead of the "i915" modules, as well as the "drm" module.
> 
> I'll try it, maybe that fixes it. Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christoph
> 
> 
> Am 10.07.2023 um 01:57 schrieb Justin Sherrill:
>> I ran into I think the same problem a while back, solved by loading the
>> kernel module that matches the driver - here's the writeup:
>>
>> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/09/14/booting-uefi-and-text-consoles/
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 1:30 PM Christoph Harder <shadowomf at arcor.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> various changes to the UEFI settings didn't help. The firmware was already
>>> the latest available.
>>> To proceed I decided to run the setup again an use the Legacy BIOS option
>>> in the installer. Now it works.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 08.07.2023 um 21:22 schrieb Christoph Harder:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying to install Dragonfly BSD on a Biostar A68N-2100K,
>>> however I'm having problem with the font rendering .
>>>> To be more precise the font in the console is cut in half and only the
>>> upper half of the screen is refreshed/updated but with 25 half lines. I
>>> hope you can guess what I try to describe.
>>>>
>>>> The Mainboard does offer two option to boot, UEFI and BBS, so the usb
>>> stick I'm booting/installing from is listed twice in the boot options, as
>>> "somethin-something UEFI" and as "something-something".
>>>> I guess it's some kind of compatibility mode that the board tries to
>>> provide.
>>>> Anyway when I boot from the usb stick without the UEFI-Option
>>> ("something-something") the fonts in the console and setup are rendered as
>>> usual.
>>>> However when I select the boot option with the UEFI-Option
>>> ("somethin-something UEFI") the fonts are cut in half and the screen is
>>> updated incorrectly.
>>>>
>>>> Now I could use the option without the UEFI and it would probably work,
>>> however I've had problems getting the board to always choose this option.
>>>> It does seem to prefer the UEFI-Option and I havent got it to work
>>> reliably by selecting the non UEFI-Option as first boot option.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever had such problems with configuring a UEFI board and can
>>> maybe give me some hints what I might be doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Christoph
>>>
>>
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