From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 5 19:13:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5459AE19CAE for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22f.google.com (mail-it0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E717E6F986 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id k186so1192715ith.0 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=1qGGcdlcWBcIIMJf9oNusZNKLj90ter0zsi5BsqWCXY=; b=E10G9f2YNwDRjwE8rltEkvjPaxf1LD4RTLlBUxfwWHPS6HU18YB/2GIydAL2K9JQzy stRUtWOAiBebNtuaNjr0x0KNl3kcGiDaXgmc8ZrxK/B0G0x37wWiGZy5+c8+py8ROSDV Xu228nIMtMKzi4jLe/YBVgOaOMCzuk5DjY19+7y1bxKtDOXYRekgNxHO0XesMaD64h7d AKLCrx1+04m7RvAPoP+slaWZ/YujPJDezeIXPI4D1YLpk4BLdyB807pYrKSXxOL1SFlT aetQiE4fLL3QNjiRn63e3udycpBWv/9Q1bqOXhB2Ndbw38nRDyzk55T0INYCFz5nVT00 KKXg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=1qGGcdlcWBcIIMJf9oNusZNKLj90ter0zsi5BsqWCXY=; b=CplitmY8rsf1FRuWlAlNe61kykQKLD0+TeYIl0X7a+CjeQ4qNoe38kLCA4t8DfPgD+ eF78AVZHM9kK5qM8uQAQKpYnO6eq0GS5xOk+/46Ysj0GrDyyXO26tO7OReTML5CMyXJQ q30UYU4ke81OZnVvgaZ3plsM9aG8ivW2Z76Ca1FpEIIj7pK9iE/ebLK4o/qYOctQVaXq rWok/hm7hOsWNsFVA/qZnEpedk/Jlrt/jUdnSF47upH7O4gKJsz0ahTuThw/LDO44fSY Q1mTi2Q/zrjuFuNOZzb+HcrQ+6EH5S+47iff3pS3mFmXDlJAmBXaWM1VTB1FlI2/gj8k UGOA== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUhjd7RVHBCGobhGPSt1KiGgdNRdecfo29hbbyeihszA1gWJzzy+ z31DWdEgT1ojz6YGJIeIl+Nb6nSZMdFo X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb7Ro+FYrhYZpOxo1ZGYOKU6ArtkuCfwBUqdmxtdeMcBvMSAe+CFT3RIMMoQDeybsrzRQgNRqkiq7K3p9gwqR/U= X-Received: by 10.36.6.71 with SMTP id 68mr232188itv.184.1504638785167; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.2.145.141 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 12:13:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170905204920.2b709f7a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> <59AEAD20.8050006@gmail.com> <20170905201840.ae6b53ee.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170905204920.2b709f7a.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Adam Vande More Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:13:04 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Ernie Luzar Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:13:06 -0000 On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Polytropon wrote: > I'll try to express better: > > When the system boots, the screen uses 80x25 characters. The > character size depends on the screen size of course. With sc, > I get "big letters" on a 21" CRT, as intended. > > When booting with vt, the system starts booting with the 80x25 > mode, then switches to a font where I'd say the screen has > 160x100 characters (just a guess, I didn't count them actually). > Those are "small letters", even on a 21" CRT, too small for me > to be read conveniently. > > So what I need is a way to tell vt to display 80x25 characters > that "scale up", and generally make them look like the regular > sc text mode. > > > > > For the former, removing the previous advice from loader.conf would be > the > > first step. Then you should be able to find an acceptable setting > > experimenting with vidcontrol eg resolution/fonts. > > With vidcontrol, I only get error messages. I think it ie tied > to sc? I also have no idea what font names to try... > Does your video hw requite kms? If so, when is it loaded? It should loaded from loader.conf, not later. You may need to explicitly define: hw.vga.textmode=0 You can load fonts with: vidcontrol -f Fonts should be located in: /usr/share/vt/fonts/ -- Adam