Re: green lines hell

["Andrei M." <lingvofactory%gmail.com@localhost>]

ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 20:15, Dave B <spam%netbsd.dberg.net@localhost>:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:35:31PM +0300, Andrei M. wrote:
> > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error
> > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the
> > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware
> > probing going on or when a connection change happens to the net card
> > (I use an ASUS K70ID laptop). It happens every few minutes, looks
> > terrible from the aesthetic point of view, when you're typing
> > something and then this breaks your line, even within vi, and can even
> > be some sort of security threat when it messes up the password prompt.
> >
> > It's usually recommended to switch to vt2, vt3 etc. in order to avoid
> > seeing these notifications. But this is not possible, when you're
> > installing the OS. Installation menus get broken by this green flood
> > and then are redrawn below, turning the whole thing into a complete
> > mishmash. Here's some screenshots:
> ...
>
> I don't think this was already mentioned--my apologies if it was:
>
> "<ctrl>L" helps a lot when I start seeing pages in the installer
> become disarrayed by the kernel's green output (it refreshes the
> screen); and I'm not sure this feature is mentioned anywhere in the
> installer's text.
>
> I doubt that's the full-fledged solution you're looking for...
> however, maybe it'll make a helpful difference until you have an
> answer that's closer to the mark.
>
> <ctrl>L is functional in a signifant portion of the installer.  In
> fact, a quick "thank you" to the installer's authors for having it
> in there.

Thanks! No, this wasn't mentioned, I'll keep this in mind next time
I'll try to do installation.

Andrei