Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:11:52 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns Message-ID: <CAOtMX2gBn8iJiCZrzgDCSxBhVN%2B0rjWoXs0YYSNdCLnQwkgAYw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96CA08DF-582A-4405-9E65-B19230EA37DA@gmail.com> References: <CAOtMX2hg%2B-7F10Dx01_0_EzH_Q_eE2J%2B1wWjAiEO7f56ofCLgQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2AAWeD-wMCR3aKG8mjPyn_4%2BMzGYBZnYYfddjtHTgDgQQ@mail.gmail.com> <96CA08DF-582A-4405-9E65-B19230EA37DA@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 12, 2017, at 18:13, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On 12 January 2017 at 18:50, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> I've seen three separate machines where FreeBSD11's vt(4) driver chops >>> off the leftmost three columns of the screen. Rendering simply starts >>> at the beginning of the fourth column. In all cases, setting >>> "kern.vty=3Dsc" corrects the problem. >> >> Or try setting hw.vga.textmode=3D1 >> >> Did you observe this with IPMI redirected video or an attached monitor >> (or a combination)? > > I=E2=80=99ll have to double check, but I=E2=80=99m pretty sure I=E2=80=99= ve seen this with my Haswell box (Escher) over VGA using my projector. > Thanks, > -Ngie 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? -Alan
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