console oddities

[Renato Botelho]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
> Hello Michiel,
>
> * Michiel Boland <michiel at boland.org> wrote:
>> On boot, the cursor on the vga screen goes to home position.
>> So if you have console=comconsole in loader.conf, the login prompt on the
>> vga terminal is sort-of lost amidst the initial boot output.
>
> Ah, it seems we forget to sync the initial cursor position with the
> hardware cursor if we don't use syscons as the kernel console. Can you
> try the attached patch?
>
>> Also during shutdown the tty settings appear to be incorrect. I am
>> getting the good old staircase effect (line feeds without carriage
>> returns.) This applies to both serial and vga consoles.
>
> Yes, this is an issue I'll look into very soon. I've been a little busy
> the last couple of weeks, which means I've not been able to look into
> this issue yet. I hope to get it fixed somewhere this weekend.
>
> Let me know if the patch solves your issue.

I noted something strange here too, i'm using a 1280x1024 console and
when I do a shutdown it seems to ignore the resolution and use just a
part (left superior) of the screen to show shutdown proccess messages.

I'm using recent -current

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Renato Botelho