From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Jan 15 05:07:09 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66721CB073B for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2017 05:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pg0-x241.google.com (mail-pg0-x241.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3567F1AAB for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2017 05:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pg0-x241.google.com with SMTP id 204so2320182pge.2 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:07:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Pyhl/c3Rx5tIrbCgzo6guKZ6fAuIhyZT6oQTeVJEi84=; b=n4HTKa1F1cRae4MEX7H2XY1RmMlCNBL+8yajwAxrwMTk8uIEbp1LJZgwQbUSuFcOry M1K8w8RbGCaxzYkL/YrQDh/595K6D/MrtTRpHg9uMRU9FVTmxlxKe4RE4jHbs1FN+Z98 8DsqywUpNl9CLzDaDjtycDzpgct9fzzyTE/zWZ8EAkYxQOw8tjjqs1ZfefuIThFZCpw0 scF4pC+2c7exP1P49hqjb+X+dIF9hvnKzwMSLnIX2c2s6ixA36UoAki7lXqSHYMov1w4 Km/DRGrQMXiA6lO0+T0JUmkeUTsFXDOdGN/W4JVvWsd4SLb7Cd2ruPG572OiP4EroIP1 CJOw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Pyhl/c3Rx5tIrbCgzo6guKZ6fAuIhyZT6oQTeVJEi84=; b=aNbHJf4Dpq6e5NqNda2Og1SV0PrSLAU/0/tBWwxqU8Mp9glSTSy7CuXdzdwCKCEvQT 2Or9JJ7RgBgfCIvbOW79ptzIa4/VKuRjiiWKERNkYIel7asiUrv7nT7j/EXw8D0mGbjC UunD7xSxp6YQYq8u49qmVMWCVSgMA0NTwiJu7k8y3RVnTtKdGP7en09Vb9SRHHd0QtU2 TTtWRr/VeymXymV1mIsm7eLRns0eQ+bKFViYnsYNmvVHcJDF5HH/A6Q18pHdIgdEejiY TSh1EHNw/n0Cp+xjNDBVa2e80E/DqgBJ1897tl3yA+m/J4p+wmGCNYetsB4adpGmyagx oJPQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJeohbZ0oNNXWXJhSPYGGSpoV7rpnCUlFKYQbnozL+ql3hft71QDUNgmxC5qUrIjA== X-Received: by 10.84.129.131 with SMTP id b3mr40140522plb.54.1484456828828; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.103] ([120.29.76.161]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id j7sm25499763pfe.84.2017.01.14.21.07.06 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:07:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <587B0381.5090603@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:07:13 +0800 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd CC: Kevin Oberman , Matthias Andree , freebsd-current Subject: Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns References: <96CA08DF-582A-4405-9E65-B19230EA37DA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 05:07:09 -0000 You can add these things to the vt to-do list Change the default font to look like sc. Add copy/paste function like sc has. Add splash screen support like sc has. Adrian Chadd wrote: > hi, > > no, the vt_vga backend doesn't yet do VESA. > > I keep meaning to sit down and fix this, but life and wifi gets in the way. > > > -adrian > > > On 14 January 2017 at 16:27, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Adrian Chadd >> wrote: >>> It depends(tm). I think the VT code just does "640x480x4bpp" and lets >>> the BIOS sort it out. A lot of things don't cope well with 640x480 >>> these days - they try autodetecting picture edges, but a black border >>> makes that very difficult. >>> >>> >>> -adrian >> >> Can you use vidcontrol(1) to change to something better? 1600x900, maybe? >> (Note, I have not tried this and I know that vt does not support a lot of >> vidcontrol functionality, but starting X sets the display to 200x56 >> characters on my laptop.) >> -- >> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer >> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com >> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 >> >> >>> On 14 January 2017 at 08:57, Matthias Andree >>> wrote: >>>> Am 14.01.2017 um 00:11 schrieb Alan Somers: >>>>> I take it back. The first three columns _are_ rendered, but they >>>>> don't show up on some monitiors. It's as if those monitors require a >>>>> minimum amount of overscan on the left side of the screen, and vt(4) >>>>> doesn't provide enough. Can that be tuned? >>>> Once upon a time, I've seen similar things on Linux, but with fewer >>>> pixels offset, when switching framebuffer drivers - back then, the >>>> scanning-VGA-timing was an issue. Is there any way to tweak the row and >>>> column timings, with blank periods, viewport offsets and thereabouts?