From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 23 18:42:16 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C632D1341D1B for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EC7A8841E for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.101.127]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue011 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MtwIW-1hOQvi22zE-00uFV8; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:42:06 +0100 Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:42:06 +0100 From: Polytropon To: mayuresh@kathe.in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to change text-console resolution Message-Id: <20181223194206.1833f3df.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55b5d06209acb007b2f4f9a4052e77b7@kathe.in> References: <55b5d06209acb007b2f4f9a4052e77b7@kathe.in> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:E38Pd2fa0xyTswdr9Jz76wjuA43GmZxRQmgQLS8muRwWmkpuApH zUicyktG8LtiC/qiKa8zwzV9rdBwrv6vgKRFjCv0CAqme2KK/lundmx2LvdFABo9f+YJOJ9 aB23A14MnYmP36ved5rFOzkhYIXxzDfW1HgKmL/PitPEHX/ZnI2iIg69jVmvzOP0qoAA5q/ D8yAQ0K0K3UbtFYZ5zqFg== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:XDiw6aCC/Gg=:iPjPeXSfsYyRjosYCFfOdY MwIaaOBiPRFgFVbeyDlcwQHRiVM082DLKlaLySfg6WYlFyO2Y66P6ZigoXqrM3WIIKotXb3Es W4RcbfFNzj7Ibx8avgjrvibQkz/B3oU6G8tneMmrmwX8vptoxqJKfj8SXBViR2TGC67lm4xpJ heBBJLxM7Rikz6eX4VwtFwtGg+ttDFZCKNyFU7SUuR6ljyXJa8YcGBTfvqUcJFYgjvtZYzF40 WLIz1cTbZyUvsDN3cUorZFtnhGUIrNP2WDyuMNzr0oE+v4Wsbt+StA1IIzuBvw5xF0HLtHFCx /fpZF8LprTej8K1AJx/IQBuaaCmfj4CRKYVL6knwLEDBJu5L8kIq3QC6p9jp/ODiqz0uAqoRg fPWQhcA/v50mAQtWl6KffvT9bUK/bWhC6J5KeqnSQ4vDosmXMawU9uGGNHaKgDi/UJ/XRAB+7 qtCjbLUDDyyIYUhxgsgaem+yWHyS1jR1EYs0iRiHqaI9hh/nXuT6DJ1X8nLjCo44WXz5WKJdp +ltx61clRIFoLTnfODq4cDwOm/BIoL8+IMmHs5HKIBATYWLrcVeTciHzX1NPLm67rz4vCGrhy Km0yU1rkXGR0+O8ATrVLBBGw676OPxiZNUk04YdaB0wOxFMzjsaiedcUrW4iq3PeeWRVoLdu1 fY5DJQ2kTC55YENsBp6HmKclu62KEbBOVoIOfAgGvEpg14wGdSAbvYPVBT2kUq+Mnogb9wVon akhR8HICG7/+5fVKtmw03HkgCgQoH7bN5NbxGlGhz27Z2WuCtfLzHsJZx7E= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3EC7A8841E X-Spamd-Bar: +++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [5.11 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mx00.schlund.de,mx01.schlund.de]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.42)[ip: (1.83), ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-0.28), asn: 8560(0.56), country: DE(-0.01)]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[127.101.195.92.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.47)[0.474,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.94)[0.937,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.89)[0.887,0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[134.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:42:16 -0000 On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:49:49 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > is there any way to change the resolution of a regular text console? i > am not referring to x11/xorg here, just the pure-text tty console. There is no text console in FreeBSD anymore, except you have kern.vty=sc set in /boot/loader.conf, which is incompatible with X (if you want to be able to use X on that machine). However, you can try this in /boot/loader.conf: kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1024x768" Adjust it to the actual size (in pixels) your display has. If you're using a CRT - well, it doesn't have pixels... ;-) You can also try this: hw.vga.textmode=0 For vt, you can try various things in /etc/rc.conf, depending on the FreeBSD version you're using they may or may not work as expected, or work at all. With vidcontrol, you can choose a different font: allscreens_flags="-f gallant" Of course, you cannot choose "80x25" or anything like that in a convenient way. Neither can you influence the colors which seem to be distorted. So say good bye to the text mode and use X instead, where setting options for xterm to make text readable again is much easier. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...