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 -- Renato BotelhoReceived on Wed Jan 28 2009 - 22:46:14 UTC
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