vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

[Alan Somers]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:43 AM, David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:00, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0.
>
> The choice was VT or no acceleration in X11, because all of the new DRI drivers depend on KMS, which requires VT.  We only got VT in a useable state (and therefore useable accelerated X11 for most of the 10.x series) because the Foundation funded the work.  More contributions to VT are always welcome, but the choice was not between VT or something better tested, it was between VT and black screens.
>
> David

I should add, BTW, that on my Haswell desktop, the only place where I
care about graphics, vt(4) works great.  It works better than Linux
did on the same hardware.  It also uses a DVI monitor, so there are no
issues with the borders.

-Alan