Re: green lines hell

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

ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 13:33, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. <lingvofactory%gmail.com@localhost> 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.
>
> When I last installed OpenBSD, it did the same, except in white on
> blue. Worse, it would print it onto whichever console you were on (I
> think).

OK, I tried to install OpenBSD and FreeBSD on this laptop a few years
ago and there wasn't issues like that.
But as I decided to stick to NetBSD I haven't had experience with
those OSes anymore.

> In NetBSD, kernel messages go to a VT called "console", which is the
> first VT by default. Once you finish the installation, you can edit
> /etc/ttys, set console to "off" and ttyE0 to "on". This turns the
> first VT into a regular VT, and kernel messages go nowhere by default.
> Or you could connect the console to a serial port. Or if you run X,
> Xconsole is typically able to show kernel messages in a window.

Yes, thanks for this, that's not a problem as long as you're booted
and can adjust the system. But not in the installer sadly.
Then, I do a lot of stuff in Linux and I'm used to work in the first
VT without thinking twice, where kernel messages just go to the system
log.