11-Beta1 problem with virtual KVM

[Karl Denninger]

On 7/22/2016 14:38, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 11 July 2016 at 13:22, Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> You might try adding this to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting:
>>>
>>>         kern.vty="sc"
>>>
>>> That will at least narrow down the problem to the new vt(4).
>> Or instead, add this:
>>
>>         hw.vga.textmode=1
>>
>> which will continue using vt(4) but in text mode instead.
>>
>> Could someone with this issue take a screen capture, and post it
>> somewhere or email me directly? Also, is this with BIOS/CSM boot, or
>> UEFI?
> https://s32.postimg.org/5yvnuqdpx/image.jpg
>
> The server was booted from an mfsbsd image based on FreeBSD-11-BETA2.
> It was a normal bios boot, the server doesn't support efi.
>
That's exactly the same symptom I see on my SuperMicro IPKVM systems;
the bottom half of the last line is cut off.

hw.vga.textmode=1 *does* fix it, as does reverting to "sc", but neither
should be necessary.

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