Graphic daemon

Rock

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.
 
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.

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Solved Post in thread 'FreeBSD 14.2 bootsplash gone'

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

Rich (BB code): 
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.

What does sysctl machdep.bootmethod show?

If BIOS, it can be reverted to graphics mode by undoing the changes and
Code: 
 # cd /usr/src/stand
 # make  && make install
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Solved Post in thread 'FreeBSD 14.2 bootsplash gone'

SirDice said:
Change isn't in the kernel, it's in gptboot(8)/gptzfsboot(8).
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I did this:
cd /usr/src/stand
make clean install
and it's back to normal

Thank you very much!
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Rock said:
I will install STABLE. Sorry.
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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.
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stable/14, 14.2-RELEASE, 15.0-CURRENT are text only, no graphics in console, unless a custom boot loader is used.
 
Rock said:
But the red daemon was real.
It's gone.
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The red daemon (FreeBSD logo) graphics version was present since 14 I believe, then the FreeBSD developers decided to remove graphics from legacy BIOS loader on 14.2 to make room for GZIP and BZIP2 compression support.

However, you can have it back. Populate /usr/src, apply below patch (or edit manually)
Diff: 
diff --git a/share/mk/src.opts.mk b/share/mk/src.opts.mk
index 22373f8c7af1..7270b928d1c5 100644
--- a/share/mk/src.opts.mk
+++ b/share/mk/src.opts.mk
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ __DEFAULT_YES_OPTIONS = \
     LLD_IS_LD \
     LLVM_COV \
     LLVM_CXXFILT \
-    LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY \
     LOADER_GELI \
     LOADER_KBOOT \
     LOADER_LUA \
@@ -212,6 +211,7 @@ __DEFAULT_NO_OPTIONS = \
     LLVM_ASSERTIONS \
     LLVM_BINUTILS \
     LLVM_FULL_DEBUGINFO \
+    LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY \
     MALLOC_PRODUCTION \
     OFED_EXTRA \
     OPENLDAP \
diff --git a/stand/i386/loader/Makefile b/stand/i386/loader/Makefile
index c2037772fc76..a4aa3a3c4d45 100644
--- a/stand/i386/loader/Makefile
+++ b/stand/i386/loader/Makefile
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ LOADER_CD9660_SUPPORT?= yes
 LOADER_EXT2FS_SUPPORT?=        no
 LOADER_MSDOS_SUPPORT?= no
 LOADER_UFS_SUPPORT?=   yes
-LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT?=  yes
-LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT?= yes
+LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT?=  no
+LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT?= no

 .include <bsd.init.mk>
Code: 
 # cd /usr/src/stand
 # make && make install

The following image is a 14.2-RELEASE VirtualBox VM in BIOS mode with the modified code installed, showing from the loader prompt the output of /var/run/os-release and VESA BIOS VBE frame buffer information:

142-graphics_console.png
 
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