vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 13 02:13:57 UTC 2017


On 12 January 2017 at 18:50, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I've seen three separate machines where FreeBSD11's vt(4) driver chops
> off the leftmost three columns of the screen.  Rendering simply starts
> at the beginning of the fourth column.  In all cases, setting
> "kern.vty=sc" corrects the problem.

Or try setting hw.vga.textmode=1

Did you observe this with IPMI redirected video or an attached monitor
(or a combination)?


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