Hi ANdrei, 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: > > 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.
It is "normal" for any BSD system I have seen to spit these out. However, the issue for you here is that they should not repeat like this. I think it is your mouse that is connecting/reconnecting several times. I have seen that happen, coul d be bad power saving or something similar. Try changing mouse? Or disconnect it since you don't even need it. Riccardo
