From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 15: 0:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD72537B418 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a024.otenet.gr [212.205.215.24]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fAKN0bo10955; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:00:37 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKMslE49631; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:54:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:54:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing console text size? Message-ID: <20011120225445.GI27244@hades.hell.gr> References: <001801c171ef$02d68460$b5e4b184@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001801c171ef$02d68460$b5e4b184@sickness> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-11-20 13:13:09, David Loszewski wrote: > Is there a way to change the text size of the console text. On my 19" > monitor the text is huge when I'm out of X-Windows and using console > instead. You can change the console video mode, by properly tweaking your rc.conf file. I have in mine: % grep allscr /etc/rc.conf allscreens_flags="132x25" This makes the default console mode have 132 columns instead of the default 80. My 15" monitor looks a lot better with 132 columns. For more video modes, read the manual page of vidcontrol(1) and the description of allscreens_flags in rc.conf(5). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message