From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 16:55:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (luna.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4075937B64E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD82C31BF; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:55:19 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Joao Carlos Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console font Message-ID: <20000813165519.F516@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: <002701c0056e$eaf24020$fc04dfc8@pchome> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002701c0056e$eaf24020$fc04dfc8@pchome>; from jc@jc.eti.br on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:38:24PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 at 18:38:24 -0300, Joao Carlos wrote: > can anyone tell me how to change the console font for a smaller one > (if it's possible) > > i tried the font8x .... option in rc.conf, but any font i tried was > smaller. > > i'd like to see more text in a " page" in console... Read the vidcontrol(1) man page. In order to use an 8x8 font at 80x50, I have the following in my rc.conf: font8x8="iso-8x8" allscreens_flags="VGA_80x50" This is described in more depth in the man page. - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message