Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:50:32 -0500 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Console resolution/font size Message-ID: <20201126105032.8bb06de2648f455d9fa55453@3dresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <20201125191258.6130f490.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20201125020318.30f5921d6fee3e267945a243@3dresearch.com> <X74ZksztIlHO7mtm@esprimo> <20201125120342.642137e5543f8d9ee25d84a9@3dresearch.com> <X76RjwktYx8rDhWI@esprimo> <20201125191258.6130f490.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:12:58 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:17:03 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > Am Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:03:42PM -0500 schrieb Janos Dohanics: > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:45:06 +0100 > > > Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > This is not something one want to have. > > The only idea I have is to increase the delay of the boot menue. > > It is already 10 seconds. For a Thinkpad T480, 10 seconds should > be more than sufficient for the screen to switch modes (if it > actually does that)... Increasing the delay to 20 sec made no difference. > On modern hardware, it is absolutely important to load the correct > KMS drivers, and it's possible to play with fonts. All of this is > not really documented well, and personally I still consider it to > be a bit experimental because vt can still not sufficiently do what > sc could do for decades. There are many variables and moving parts, > such as graphics card and driver, UEFI, display internal firmware, > ant-tiny fonts, ugly colors, and all that, also DRM drivers and how > and when they are loaded. A _text_ mode (per definition) no longer > exists, it's all some kind of graphics mode. You need to experiment > with screen size and fonts if you want to get a readable non-X11 > mode on your machine. > > Two sources of information are those: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics > > Also check the related manual pages, especially "man 5 loader.conf". > > Or say goodbye to "text mode" entirely and use X instead. It makes > life a lot easier. ;-) Thanks for the pointers. -- Janos Dohanics
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