From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 13:37:58 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 30F77E8CF29 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:37:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com (mail-it0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]) (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 EAE0171882 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id d16so10399432itj.1 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:37:57 -0800 (PST) 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=qFdahwPA5bqZkBkT9qEVraufpamsFb4Vuh+iw76ry9E=; b=L8QZrXdaZJsmkEQG5DUe6ZUKcuLVP+SdpuQq4/eXz496xCsVHALQ55cpwNthVyFoY8 nn/7NroXYuldHE/JUnTR53w5epGbK/RPx0mMSiVxQADuvRbjngF3wKfkKnBAKygB5CYh h7koAMIc0OLnQ2k/uQHgmNlINJLn2005xFTuOF5PbdZJ83a2xeiKkc8haX6UOItrkeZ7 5pAQadsu3Xh1MrZsy/Dibb79PAjNWPU1jLMzG64Srrgr/E8K9/Hcu7HUbl4w/FlSMcAm qOwdspRHN2FThTG7Or6L9ZvHbT9Fz+TEyoEKy7qy8PG1pmE2ugRYDO+yhcdEisYleLRV v/1w== 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=qFdahwPA5bqZkBkT9qEVraufpamsFb4Vuh+iw76ry9E=; b=DACFsNhasUqGaMpOiFUlObFA1OY/ACHaNZ4yHqafbUZ1+dy2v2qJ55yYoKf51bT9av LtLE1vB4bsxgPsPnUrdKBNn5deiUOcgswPkK/pHolfGphpB+AwuFBqnnaIDrDsXS1SbM FmVKOrqwzM8YlGDmuJKcX59Sc6vIwL0ZztIuHRZSyTytlhfQIRPqHJlrHAGXH7MMgH0Z gGqGP1625MrY+vjyVKvl7Y9O/PUMkAFU1iTxIWdFwJmM9y6VR9opKZQeIanpflIZZfcJ D5pimENR+7hBGvbZDAWHh7j+hr45vlv8AWEwnOCpeuKaZfyBB54E6IKoVXKvJ0WSwWtl n/nw== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mIlgZVDUt0xHpj2qHFZhU4wca5dkXzwRnXJkmhRTIJIghE2jbat m2ZKsgpq45cRdRWK0SjPIcVz78adwcQQhr82xPY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMae3vKqZgTAoQnOa4Ao+yBCLqUFu6b8aHuDxbnsmxJG1HQuvKm0y2yo97qoTjwnBB+JWE2he0/JYHhWJkiSlO8= X-Received: by 10.36.167.77 with SMTP id s13mr13765247iti.51.1512913077146; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:37:57 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.11.31 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:37:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20171210130700.3fd3ecce0b45b567c9fd9509@sohara.org> References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20171210130700.3fd3ecce0b45b567c9fd9509@sohara.org> From: blubee blubeeme Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:37:56 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: FreeBSD , Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:37:58 -0000 When I was booting my laptop in BIOS mode my text was very large and readable on this 4k screen. After updating to UEFI my text is unreadable. On the other side in BIOS mode I could only work with tty1, trying to switch would crash my graphics card [GTX 1070] and force a reboot on UEFI I can use different consoles no problem. On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 15:12:45 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > As more and more systems got updated, vt has become the default > > console driver, and sc and modern X seem to heavily collide, so > > there is no way back. However, even though vt basically works, > > the modes it automatically chooses are far from usable from my > > point of view: The text is far too small to be conveniently read. > > Also the colors seem to be "wrong" and of low contrast (compared > > to sc, that is, on the same hardware). > > > > The "just works" feeling somehow has been lost... :-( > > I stayed out of this thread because my system doesn't have the > effect you describe, the console font is nice and big (80x29 on my > 1280x1024 monitor) but a quick dig around didn't reveal any reason for me > being so blessed. > > I've stumbled across that reason now. My ancient nVidia ION > hardware > is supported by the old nVidia driver that doesn't speak KMS. Without KMS > the display stays in vt 640x480 mode and seems to find a decently usable > font by default and I can flip between consoles and X with no problems. > > It seems that KMS is the problem rather than vt. > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >