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Date:      Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:22:16 -0500
From:      Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 11-Beta1 problem with virtual KVM
Message-ID:  <bd5decf7-7757-2591-783e-998399ad220a@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4e137b8a-4dd4-10c9-7843-83452c217a70@denninger.net>
References:  <4dc72d13-bdbf-3947-0564-4e8553475b17@denninger.net> <CAPed3OG9sa-F_t%2B%2BwTFHydBgHNO20cc_w6eaC7qVOU72rbHRsw@mail.gmail.com> <4e137b8a-4dd4-10c9-7843-83452c217a70@denninger.net>

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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 <karl@denninger.net> 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



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