Supermicro IPMIView with 11.1-RELEASE

[Allan Jude]

On 2018-04-05 01:01, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> I'm working with 11.1-RELEASE via ipmi for the first time and there's 
>> something funny going on with the console. The first time I used a real 
>> vga console that everything was shifted a bit and that I needed to 
>> auto-calibrate my lcd panel. But I see now when I use the KVM supermicro 
>> ipmi console viewer that the bottom line is cut in half. And actually 
>> the last column is missing!
>>
>> stty says the console is 30x80 so I wrote a script to fill it with 
>> numbers and not output a final newline (see attached). It sure looks 
>> like everything is shifted right 1/2 character width (or more) and down 
>> 1/2 character height.
>>
>> Anybody know what's going on?
> 
> The new "vt" graphical console is borked, it is known to have issues
> with KVM's and impi consoles.  Its graphics timing signals are off
> standard just enough to mess things up.
> 
> You can probably get around your issue by switching to syscons console.
> 
> IIRC you can drop to the loader prompt, and type:
> kern.vty=sc
> boot
> 
> to work around this issue.   But this may create issues with EFI bios.
> 

I can donate access to a machine or 3 if someone would actually fix this.


-- 
Allan Jude