Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

From: Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <"Ngie>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:31:16 -0800
> 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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