On 2014-09-23, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: > On 14-09-22 05:03 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> The Atom C2xxx boards run OpenBSD fine. Only glitch I've noticed is >> the screen background goes red if you VT switch twice (ctrl+alt+f2 >> ctrl+alt+f1). > > That "bug" has been around since the 3.x days; the VT code relies on VGA > framebuffers initializing something correctly, and increasingly modern > VGA implementations don't. First observed under VMware, so Theo refused > to fix it back then, but now observable on a wide variety of servers.
Wide variety - yes, the Aspeed graphics/remote management controllers used in these machines are showing up all over the place now. > Cosmetic problem only, and AFAICT only occurs with text-mode display, > not the bitmap-based console available now. Fixing it requires (IIRC - > going from memory several years old) resetting all video attributes, > preemptively erasing the screen, then resetting to correct and redrawing > on every VT switch. Not too hard, but not a one-line fix, either. Thanks for the information.
