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Subject: Re: vt(4) "newcons" and 80x25 vty? (tested: 10.1-BETA2)
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> From: Jean-S?bastien P?dron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>

> > * VT in VGA textmode fonts loading broken (tested 10.1-BETA2).  Tried
> > vidfont(1) and also vidcontrol -f [size] [filename].  For loading "VGA"
> > fonts, screen weird/unusable (see below).  For loading Gallant (12x22),
> > the virtual terminal freeze (both other vty still ok).
> 
> Still correct: there's a bug here. In VGA text mode, loading a font
> should be rejected. The purpose of text mode is to let the video card
> draw the text itself.

With sc(4), font is loaded into the video card.
In rc.conf:

font8x16="cp866u-8x16"
scrnmap="koi8-u2cp866u"
keymap="ru.koi8-r"
allscreens_flags="80x30"

~ $ locale
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R

Please don't force people to change locale to Unicode
in case of motherboard replacement to Intel video.