I noticed that when radeonkms gets kldloaded while the cursor is on the last screen line (of 25x80 mode) after lots of output, it appears to place its message "Loaded radeonkms, id 14" onto screen line 25 *after* resizing the vt screen to a higher resolution than 25x80, overwriting previous output. Shouldn't it output on the last line at the bottom instead, where one expects it to appear, instead of somewhere into old output in the upper half of the screen, where it is easily overlooked?
@Reporter What FreeBSD version is running and could you please include the following please, as attachments: - /var/run/dmesg.boot - pciconf -lv - pkg version -v output
This was on a testing machine (HP Z800 late boot block with latest BIOS) with 13-RELEASE-p6 using Radeon HD 7350. pkg are latest (pkg update upgrade was done shortly before). dmesg.boot is gone, as I rollbacked the system directly afterwards. As I am doing tests with different hardware on the test machine, I will repeat testing this later, not only with radeonkms, but also on another machine with i915kms, because I would not be surprised if the same issue also appears there.
Update: I found the i915kms driver "works" the same way. It appears like that it depends on how much the scrollback ring buffer is filled, where the kms loading message appears on the screen (if at all). Sometimes it does not appear on the visible area of the screen, which I find somewhat concerning, as one does not know where in memory the output is written to. So I have to change the bug description accordingly.