From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mon Jul 11 17:22:20 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@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 A1A86B92CDF for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vangyzen@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.vangyzen.net (hotblack.vangyzen.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:7400:216:3eff:fe72:314f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C97C13E3 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vangyzen@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sweettea.beer.town (unknown [76.164.8.130]) by smtp.vangyzen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ABE815648C; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:22:19 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: 11-Beta1 problem with virtual KVM To: Karl Denninger , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <4dc72d13-bdbf-3947-0564-4e8553475b17@denninger.net> <4e137b8a-4dd4-10c9-7843-83452c217a70@denninger.net> From: Eric van Gyzen Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:22:16 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4e137b8a-4dd4-10c9-7843-83452c217a70@denninger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:22:20 -0000 On 07/11/16 12:12 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 7/11/2016 11:54, Ruben Kerkhof wrote: >> Dear Karl, >> >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Karl Denninger wrote: >>> It looks like the VGA "synthetic" adapter that the system is outputting >>> on for the console now has one extra scan line. >>> >>> This results in the last line being half cut-off on my java-based >>> KVM.... very annoying and it makes it extremely difficult to work on the >>> system via it. >>> >>> This was *not* a problem with 10.x; it's a new issue for 11. >>> >>> Ideas to fix? Setting rows does not do it. >> FWIW, I'm seeing the same on various Supermicro KVMs. >> This is indeed very annoying since it hides the prompt. >> >> I've been planning to open an issue in BZ but haven't had the time yet. >> > It also impacts a real monitor; I had to resize the screen that I had > used on one of my test machines for quite some time. It appears they > changed the scan line count or something similar in the driver. You might try adding this to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting: kern.vty="sc" That will at least narrow down the problem to the new vt(4). Eric