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: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12YTQt7t8q5mX-X0uJ-sitTTKJWg5xSat https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Nkmpwfg6ybkpLfGHCbnkVwVIhMLgV-q9 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MPKRrFCHCiBOwDWzuTA61wBcvK1TuDXn https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t0HG8NRywz6CmYZx0CBk8bx07WS3nV5h https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mM3cgyJZL2y20XX0B2T8iaJ9kMjx3kU5 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZdK8pzIgGJ1PmXDwxVBHhvkXOdE-kLcL https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r5u26pPmYx6Eeq_FZsnT4zrgDj6SnaC6 I've never seen anything like that in other BSD's or Linux distros that I've had on the same computer. So I'm wondering if these green notifications are of such importance to someone, why not to reserve for them one vt (not vt1) where no input from user would be assumed? And of course it would be good to shut them down in the installation system. Andrei
