Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread David Chisnall
On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:00, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0. The choice was VT or no acceleration in X11, because all of the new DRI drivers depend on KMS, which requires VT. We only got VT in a useable state (and therefore useable ac

Re: xpt related hang on sparc64

2017-01-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:23:13PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote: > That error message can mean many different things. You need to boot > in verbose mode to get a better idea. As a test I created a netbootable image from -current the other day. All I had available to test was an X1 which booted fine.

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Matthias Andree
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

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Alan Somers
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:43 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:00, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> >> VT should have had better testing before becoming the default in 11.0. > > The choice was VT or no acceleration in X11, because all of the new DRI > drivers depend on KMS, which requires V

Multiple FreeBSD on same drive

2017-01-14 Thread Johannes Lundberg
Hi The most recent info I have is that the (UEFI) boot loader can only boot from the first UFS partition it finds. Has support for multiple installations been implemented? If so, how can I choose to boot from the first or second UFS partition? Thanks! _

Secure Boot

2017-01-14 Thread Johannes Lundberg
Hi It's been almost a year since the Secure Boot wiki has been updated. https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot What is the current status and roadmap? Thanks! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
It depends(tm). I think the VT code just does "640x480x4bpp" and lets the BIOS sort it out. A lot of things don't cope well with 640x480 these days - they try autodetecting picture edges, but a black border makes that very difficult. -adrian On 14 January 2017 at 08:57, Matthias Andree wrote:

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > It depends(tm). I think the VT code just does "640x480x4bpp" and lets > the BIOS sort it out. A lot of things don't cope well with 640x480 > these days - they try autodetecting picture edges, but a black border > makes that very difficult. >

Re: TSC as timecounter makes system lag

2017-01-14 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > Hi all, > > since 2 or 3 weeks ago, I noticed that my old Penryn-based Intel Pentium > T4200 notebook lagged a lot. System time was running a lot slower, > sometimes even looked like it freezed. Keystroke repeat rate was slow too. > > Since s

Re: Secure Boot

2017-01-14 Thread Simon J. Gerraty
Johannes Lundberg wrote: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot > Interested in this too - though for proprietary systems where we have control over BIOS. The design should hopefully accommodate both. In particular any plan for how the loader would verify kernel and any pre-loaded modules, and

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
hi, no, the vt_vga backend doesn't yet do VESA. I keep meaning to sit down and fix this, but life and wifi gets in the way. -adrian On 14 January 2017 at 16:27, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Adrian Chadd > wrote: >> >> It depends(tm). I think the VT code just does

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Ernie Luzar
You can add these things to the vt to-do list Change the default font to look like sc. Add copy/paste function like sc has. Add splash screen support like sc has. Adrian Chadd wrote: hi, no, the vt_vga backend doesn't yet do VESA. I keep meaning to sit down and fix this, but life and wifi g

Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
heh. As always, patches gratefully accepted. :) -adrian On 14 January 2017 at 21:07, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > You can add these things to the vt to-do list > > Change the default font to look like sc. > Add copy/paste function like sc has. > Add splash screen support like sc has. > > > > Adria

Re: TSC as timecounter makes system lag [-> jhb]

2017-01-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 15/01/2017 10:11 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: Hi all, since 2 or 3 weeks ago, I noticed that my old Penryn-based Intel Pentium T4200 notebook lagged a lot. System time was running a lot slower, sometimes even looked like it freezed. Keystroke

Re: Secure Boot

2017-01-14 Thread Jan Dušátko
Dne 15.1.2017 v 3:38 Simon J. Gerraty napsal(a): > Johannes Lundberg wrote: >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot >> > Interested in this too - though for proprietary systems where we have > control over BIOS. The design should hopefully accommodate both. > > In particular any plan for how the