vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 02:31:18 UTC 2017


> On Jan 12, 2017, at 18:13, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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)?

I’ll have to double check, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this with my Haswell box (Escher) over VGA using my projector.
Thanks,
-Ngie

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