From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Thu Apr 5 05:03:09 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 A8B0EF89CFD for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 05:03:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (mx1.scaleengine.net [209.51.186.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5ADB668A9C; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 05:03:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.1.1.2] (Seawolf.HML3.ScaleEngine.net [209.51.186.28]) (Authenticated sender: allanjude.freebsd@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8665A147CF; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 05:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Supermicro IPMIView with 11.1-RELEASE To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <201804050501.w35511KB096042@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Kyle Evans From: Allan Jude Message-ID: <96febeb0-d7f0-1b74-eb23-a3a2884eddf4@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 01:03:15 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201804050501.w35511KB096042@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:03:09 -0000 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