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Re: Pi 3 HDMI mode problems



Sometimes the ports need tweaking. At times the BSDs work together - at least Net and Free do, DeRaadt isn't much on working with others. Talk to the developers on both sides to see if they are able to help you with a solution.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Alan Corey <alan01346%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
It seemed OK, that was on the model B a couple years ago.  I was
disappointed that many ports in the ports tree wouldn't build though.
And I had a problem with the SD card socket so the whole Pi was
unreliable, I didn't use it for a year.

On 5/10/16, Joe Nosay <superbisquit%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> How was the performance of FreeBSD upon the Pi?
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Alan Corey <alan01346%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> I'm running 2016-05-14-netbsd-raspi-earmv6hf.img.gz on a Raspberry Pi
>> 3b and it seems to almost ignore the video modes in config.txt.
>> Mostly it does 1920x1080@60 except sometimes it looks like the same
>> mode but out of focus.  The monitor (Dell s2409w) says it's
>> 640x480@60.
>>
>> My EDID is apparently not readable under Raspbian because unless I
>> specify a mode I get a black screen.  I normally use hdmi_group=2,
>> hdmi_drive=2, hdmi_mode=24 on the 3b but my model B was different.
>> I'm not sure how universal HDMI modes are, apparently not very.
>>
>> I tried the group 2 mode 16 suggested in a comment in config.txt and
>> it gives me the same 1920x1080.  I've tried about 4 modes including
>> hdmi_safe and the numbers from what Raspbian defines that as, plus my
>> 2/2/24.  I'm not sure how it can look out of focus on an  LCD monitor,
>> it looks OK with other things fed into it, including the Pi in
>> Raspbian.  Sometimes it's just not readable.  I can't ssh into it
>> because I can't read the interface name so I can set it to a usable
>> IP.
>>
>> I've recently discovered the monitor says it's 640x480 though.  I've
>> had X running a couple times, the characters in xterm are hard to
>> read.  How can I have tiny characters yet the monitor sees it as
>> 640x480?  Maybe a dot clock thing.  It's like looking at a photograph
>> of a 1920x1080 that's only 640x480, you can't actually read anything.
>>
>> I've never used NetBSD before, but I've used OpenBSD for 15 years
>> (i386).  Unfortunately they won't touch the Pi because they don't like
>> the BLOBs.  This is my 2nd Pi, I got my model B in 2013 and ran
>> Raspbian and FreeBSD on it.
>>
>>   Alan Corey
>>
>> --
>> Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX
>>
>


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