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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:00:09 +0800
From:      Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns
Message-ID:  <58782699.2050504@gmail.com>
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Alan Somers 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=sc" corrects the problem.  The three different systems are:
> 
> 1) Haswell CPU with SuperMicro X10DRH-IT motherboard
> 2) Gainestown CPU with Dell S99 motherboard
> 3) Via Nano X2 CPU with VIA EPIA-M900 motherboard
> 
> I don't have time to hack on vt myself as long as sc works fine.  But
> if there's any way that I can help a vt developer, I'd be happy to do
> it.
> 
> -Alan

VT(4) already has open problems that no one is working on so may as well 
add this as another pr.

VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0.




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