After installing 5.5, I was pleasantly surprised to see the high-res framebuffer with the classic sparc console font. However I have a couple minor issues with it:
1) No Shift+PgUp scrollback -- I understand this a case of ENOTIMPLEMENTED, and the recommendation for tmux, etc., so I'll not complain any further. It would be nice to have some day. :-) 2) The cursor completely blocks out whatever letter it is positioned over (command editing, vi, etc.). Every other framebuffer console I've used (including OpenBSD sparc and mac68k, I believe, but it's been a while since I've used those) behaved like xterm, where the letter under the cursor is displayed in reverse video, but that does not happen here. To make sure I had sane expectations, I tested a server with an embedded Radeon ES1000, and that one worked properly. After that comparison I also noticed that my laptop does not show highlighting in man pages -- everything is the same standard light-grey color. Probably a related issue. This an MSI Wind U230L netbook, with Athlon Neo MV40 CPU + RS780/HD3200 graphics. X works fine, at least what little bit I've tested. dmesg: ==== OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC) #271: Wed Mar 5 09:31:16 MST 2014 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 1992585216 (1900MB) avail mem = 1931034624 (1841MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xfc2a0 (45 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "A1243AMS V1.1E" date 12/13/2011 bios0: Micro-Star International U230 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG SLIC OEMB HPET SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PCE2(S4) PCE3(S4) PCE4(S4) PCE6(S4) PCE7(S4) PCE9(S4) PCEA(S4) PCEB(S4) PCEC(S4) SBAZ(S4) P0PC(S4) PCE5(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) Neo Processor MV-40, 1600.33 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,3DNOWP cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 21, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318180 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (P0P1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE3) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (PCE4) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 120 degC acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 model "MS-1243 " serial type LION oem "MSI Corp. " acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0 acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn2 at acpi0: PWRB acpivideo0 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivout0 at acpivideo0: LCD_ cpu0: PowerNow! K8 1600 MHz: speeds: 1600 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD RS780 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 radeondrm0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 3200" rev 0x00 drm0 at radeondrm0 radeondrm0: apic 1 int 18 azalia0 at pci1 dev 5 function 1 "ATI RS780 HD Audio" rev 0x00: msi azalia0: no supported codecs ppb1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ral0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Ralink RT3090" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16, address 40:61:86:a3:b9:b8 ral0: MAC/BBP RT3090 (rev 0x3212), RF RT3020 (MIMO 1T1R) ppb2 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x03: RTL8168D/8111D (0x2800), msi, address 40:61:86:b2:ea:7a rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 ppb3 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SATA" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 22, AHCI 1.1 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, Hitachi HTS54502, PB2O> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.5000cca5f3e5328d sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sector, 488397168 sectors ohci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16, version 1.0, legacy support ohci1 at pci0 dev 18 function 1 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 17 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ohci2 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ohci3 at pci0 dev 19 function 1 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 19 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SMBus" rev 0x3c: SMI iic0 at piixpm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-6400CL5 SO-DIMM pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 "ATI SB700 IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility azalia1 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 "ATI SBx00 HD Audio" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16 azalia1: codecs: Realtek ALC888 audio0 at azalia1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3 "ATI SB700 ISA" rev 0x00 ppb4 at pci0 dev 20 function 4 "ATI SB600 PCI" rev 0x00 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 0Fh HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 0Fh DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 kate0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Misc Cfg" rev 0x00: core rev DH-G2 usb2 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at ohci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb5 at ohci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub5 at usb5 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 6.2 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "USB007 mini-USB2BU" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <USB007, mini-USB2BU, 0.00> SCSI2 0/direct removable serial.130701630000000001B6 sd1: 30MB, 512 bytes/sector, 62496 sectors uhidev0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" rev 2.00/13.20 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 4 buttons, Z dir wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (aaba3fbce68edb7e.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b drm: initializing kernel modesetting (RS780 0x1002:0x9612 0x1462:0x103A). radeondrm0: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000C7FFFFFF (128M used) radeondrm0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF drm: PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000C0040000). radeondrm0: 1366x768 wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) ====