Video blank when hooking monitor back up.....
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I don’t see any change. Probably don’t need it.
Edit: I have to take that back. The display is different, significantly better. Text better and the entire screen is being used instead of mostly just the left hand side.
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Success.
Removed the "modes" line from .local and of course booted last night. Monitor off, unplugged cable.
This is my wife's work at home work station and I'm not able to leave the cable connected between her monitor and the PFSense PC.
Plugged back in this morning. Boom, PFSense console all nice and crisp text wishing me a good morning.
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Nice, sounds like you were hitting that then.
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One more "to do" matter addressed for the PFSense Router. Gotta tell you that this software is free blows my mind.
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Interesting that these two lines were not in my syslog prior to adding the i915 tweak in .local.
Not deleting the line. Monitor is doing great. Just interesting.
I of course don't have AMD anything in my PFSense Intel PC box.
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
AMD Features=0x28000800<SYSCALL,RDTSCP,LM> -
This reads like a who's buried in Grant's Tomb kinda question but....
If I put in a stand alone video card, NVIDIA 210 for free, remove the i915 tweaks, or REM them with #?
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It will probably work. It would depend on the motherboard/BIOS auto selecting it for console output over the built in device. Most do that.
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It'll work. I've checked.
Just wondering about the i915 entries in loader.conf.local is all.
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Oh, yeah remove them. You don't want to load that driver if you don't need it, takes up valuable kernel memory.
Steve
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I may not use it. It fits my design goal, free. Totally not needed. And I'm not all that eager to have a video card fan start squealing. The box is in a work at home office.
Someone gave me an electric boat trolling motor. I'm looking at connecting it to the battery in the PFSense box UPS. Stick the propeller into the case. Cool that sucker DOWN.
There'd have to be some tweak to the NUT package though.
