From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Thu Apr 5 05:01:05 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9242FF89A88 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 05:01:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0C9D68862; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 05:01:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id w355115w096043; Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id w35511KB096042; Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201804050501.w35511KB096042@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Supermicro IPMIView with 11.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <5402cf9a-20d3-1a0d-5602-531747cf3df3@freebsd.org> To: Craig Leres Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:01:01 -0700 (PDT) CC: FreeBSD Hackers X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 05:01:05 -0000 > I'm working with 11.1-RELEASE via ipmi for the first time and there's > something funny going on with the console. The first time I used a real > vga console that everything was shifted a bit and that I needed to > auto-calibrate my lcd panel. But I see now when I use the KVM supermicro > ipmi console viewer that the bottom line is cut in half. And actually > the last column is missing! > > stty says the console is 30x80 so I wrote a script to fill it with > numbers and not output a final newline (see attached). It sure looks > like everything is shifted right 1/2 character width (or more) and down > 1/2 character height. > > Anybody know what's going on? The new "vt" graphical console is borked, it is known to have issues with KVM's and impi consoles. Its graphics timing signals are off standard just enough to mess things up. You can probably get around your issue by switching to syscons console. IIRC you can drop to the loader prompt, and type: kern.vty=sc boot to work around this issue. But this may create issues with EFI bios. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org