Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:59:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Relapse to 80x25 text mode from X Message-ID: <20160913235943.81d10d01.freebsd@edvax.de>
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When I initially installed X on my "new" Lenovo Thinkpad R61i, after leaving X (or after switching to text mode with the key combination Ctrl+Alt+PF1) the screen would still show the X image, leaving me "blind" at the console. Changing the sc driver to vt solved that problem, but opened a new one: The text mode font is tiny and unreadable. What is the preferred way of keeping the console in 80x25 mode _and_ being able to switch from/to X? My /boot/loader.conf currently contains: kern.vty=vt kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x800" hw.vga.textmode=1 i915kms_load="YES" In /etc/rc.conf I have tried allscreens_flags="-f gallant" as suggested somewhere, but that just slightly increases the font size (still more than 80x25) and looks ugly. The laptop contains an Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 GPU. The screen has a physical size of 1280 x 800 pixels. In other words: Is it possible to relapse to the default behaviour of 80x25 sc and X that has worked for decades? If yes, how? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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