TTY console with low resolution after upgrade

netbsdnoob

Hello everyone,
After having updated kernel and modules to HEAD I experience a super low resolution in the console.

Do you guys know what is this caused by? How do I fix it?

rvp

netbsdnoob It's the larger font Boldface 16x32 being chosen after the DRMKMS takeover--not a change in the resolution. To get back the smaller 8x16 font:

wsconsctl -dw font=Boldface

Change /etc/wscons.conf to set it at boot-time.

JuvenalUrbino

netbsdnoob After having updated kernel and modules to HEAD I experience a super low resolution in the console

It might also be however, that you you're missing the latest drm/kms firmware. Starting with NetBSD 10.0, this is provided in a separate set, so if you upgraded from 9.x to HEAD, you may have unintentionally missed the gpufw (direct link) set. This needs to be fetched extracted as well (default path being /libdata/firmware), whenever kernel and modules are updated. Firmware for network cards is included too here, so make sure to update it.

netbsdnoob

rvp
Do i just have to insert that line in /etc/wscons.conf ?

netbsdnoob

rvp
also is there a way to set it for all terminals?

JuvenalUrbino

netbsdnoob also is there a way to set it for all terminals?

I provided you an example here. Basically, you have to load the font you want to use, which means uncommenting a font entry in /etc/wscons.conf (Terminus, ibm, spleen), after which you use the setvar function to set that font for ttyE[0-3]. Again, you could answer most of your questions by reading the relevant man page, in this case wscons.conf(5).

Default console font, font size and background/foreground colors can also be set in the kernel config. This however requires recompiling the kernel. See this post.

netbsdnoob

JuvenalUrbino ok how could one know this? Is this documented somewhere?

netbsdnoob

JuvenalUrbino also how can i check that actually my modules are updated now?

I did:

# tar -C / -xf gpufw.tar.xz

Is there a way to manually check?

JuvenalUrbino

netbsdnoob ok how could one know this? Is this documented somewhere?

You're technically running a development snapshot, so unfortunately these things are to be expected :-P.
For the moment, it is only documented in the latest Installation Procedure

JuvenalUrbino

netbsdnoob also how can i check that actually my modules are updated now?

I did:
# tar -C / -xf gpufw.tar.xz

You should be ok then.

Is there a way to manually check?

If you really want to be sure, you can check the last modification time for files inside /libbdata/firmware.
To print the 10 most recently modified files:

~ $ find /libdata/firmware -type f | xargs stat -f "%m%t%Sm %N" | sort -rn | head -n10| cut -f2

Next time enable verbose output for tar (add a -v option):

~$ tar -C / -xvf gpufw.tar.xz