ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 20:15, Dave B <[email protected]>: > > 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
