Re: kern/59605: boot radeondrmkmsfb0: no data for est. mode 640x480x67

["Michael L. Riechers via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59605; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael L. Riechers" <mlr%rterm.rse.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>, ML Riechers <mlr%rse.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/59605: boot radeondrmkmsfb0: no data for est. mode
 640x480x67
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:01:51 -0400 (EDT)

 G'day, RVP.  Thanks for replying so swiftly.
 
  On Thur, 21 Aug 2025, RVP wrote:
 
  If you're saying that you only get a login prompt on the 1st console, can you
  check /etc/ttys to see if ttyE[1-3] have their `status' field set to `on'.
 
  `/etc/ttys' should be merged rather than overwritten with the default.
 
 No overwrite, the /etc/ttys file came directly from my Netbsd 9.2 /etc.  It
 had all ttyE.. turned off.
 
 I turned ttyE[1-3] on, and now it works. ttyE0 still slow and
 sluggish, perhaps because of a VT100 emulation.  The other ttyE.. are
 much snappier, but don't seem to use the wsvt25 from /etc/ttys.  Still
 don't have the little font produced by 9.2, but much better.
 
 So why now the dependency on /etc/ttys, when before it seemed to suffice with
 wscons.conf?
 
 So I'm starting keeping a list of "surprises" migrating from 9.2 to
 11-Beta.  Any idea where one might find such a list of "gotcha's"?
 
 
  It comes from here[1], and it seems a harmless diagnostic.
 
  -RVP
 
  [1]: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-11/sys/dev/videomode/edid.c#L613
 
 Yes, I got that far trying to track this thing down, but can't make
 heads or tails of who's calling for 640x480x67. 640x480x67 seems to be
 wrong, but where, why?
 
 Yours,
 
 -Mike
 
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