Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 01:03:15 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Supermicro IPMIView with 11.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <96febeb0-d7f0-1b74-eb23-a3a2884eddf4@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201804050501.w35511KB096042@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201804050501.w35511KB096042@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On 2018-04-05 01:01, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> 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. > I can donate access to a machine or 3 if someone would actually fix this. -- Allan Jude
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