Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 20:49:20 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt Message-ID: <20170905204920.2b709f7a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK2jMnej28pzdnz7=VKoj9uv7M4rfE%2Brf_d70hLfkduvkg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> <59AEAD20.8050006@gmail.com> <20170905201840.ae6b53ee.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2BtpaK2jMnej28pzdnz7=VKoj9uv7M4rfE%2Brf_d70hLfkduvkg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:37:57 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:56:48 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > > Add this to /boot/loader.conf to return to sc mode. > > > kern.vty=sc > > > > > > or this to tell vt to use text mode which looks and feels like sc > > > hw.vga.textmode=1 > > > > > > thats a digit one > > > > Tried, but doesn't work. > > > > With sc: > > > > text (normal) -> X (works) -> black > > > > or > > > > text (normal) -> X (throws error) -> black > > > > With vt: > > > > text (boots normal, but then too small) -> X (works) -> text (too small) > > > > or > > > > text (boots normal and stays that way) -> X (works) -> text (now too small) > > > > > > > > Reverting to sc is _not_ an option. I assume it will be removed > > from the system at some point in the future, that's why dealing > > with vt and configuring it is probably the right way to go. > > > > I'm having a hard time understanding if your console text is too small or > your windowed text. If the latter, then vt settings will not help. 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... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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