Graphic daemon

[Rock]

I got FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT. It opens the login screen in text mode but sometimes before the login screen was graphic. I want to keep it graphic. My laptop is a lenovo T420.

 

[SirDice]

FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT

Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions

 

[T-Daemon]

This is probably not particularly related to 15-CURRENT but likely to the fact that from 14.2-RELEASE upwards (stable/14, main (CURRENT), including stable/13) the console is text only mode when legacy BIOS.

T

Solved Post in thread 'FreeBSD 14.2 bootsplash gone'

Dec 24, 2024

It is BIOS but what difference does it make if it was working on 14.1, note that this problem appeared after upgrade?

If it's BIOS the loader BIOS is text only from 14.2 upwards, including stable/13 : https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=4d3b05a8530e

src/share/mk/src.opts.mk
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ __DEFAULT_YES_OPTIONS = \
+    LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY \

@@ -206,7 +207,6 @@ __DEFAULT_NO_OPTIONS = \
-    LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY \

I haven't tried it myself, but you could revert the modification, build and install system from source.

• T-Daemon

What does sysctl machdep.bootmethod show?

If BIOS, it can be reverted to graphics mode by undoing the changes and

 # cd /usr/src/stand
 # make  install

R

Solved Post in thread 'FreeBSD 14.2 bootsplash gone'

Dec 26, 2024

Change isn't in the kernel, it's in gptboot(8)/gptzfsboot(8).

I did this:
cd /usr/src/stand
make clean install
and it's back to normal

Thank you very much!

• rmomota

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[Rock]

I will install STABLE. Sorry.

 

[T-Daemon]

I will install STABLE. Sorry.

stable/13 hasn't the modification merged, yet. From the commit log

This should be merged back into stable/14 and stable/13 so it's in the
next release for each of these. That way we have only one release (13.4)
with the other defaults.

stable/14, 14.2-RELEASE, 15.0-CURRENT are text only, no graphics in console, unless a custom boot loader is used.