From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 4 23:17:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD5C37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 23:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-323.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.23]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CD0432 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 01:17:21 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ECDB43861; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 01:17:35 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 01:17:35 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: David Loszewski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making text size smaller in the console - Plz help!!!!! Message-ID: <20011205011735.F3320@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3C0DBA11.5000702@ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C0DBA11.5000702@ne.mediaone.net>; from stealth@ne.mediaone.net on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:09:21AM -0500 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 Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:09:21AM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD on a laptop so the text size on the console is huge, > how do I make this smaller? I tried using the vidcontrol to change the > resolution but half the resolutions weren't supported and the ones that > were made everything look really out of proportion. Can someone help me > with this plz? > > Dave > vidcontrol is the way to go. Did you play around with the fonts when you were checking modes? It took me a bit to find a good combo for my laptop, too. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message