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Date:      Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:57:29 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns
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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?



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