Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:59:35 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: font size in vt Message-ID: <20160823155935.GB6279@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <284553A2-D8C5-4B15-A063-4C88E8D43196@gmail.com> References: <20160823055853.GA96874@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <284553A2-D8C5-4B15-A063-4C88E8D43196@gmail.com>
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Felix Friedlander wrote: > > > > I'm currently using vt(4) for my console on a 10.3-RELEASE system. > > With the i915kms.ko loaded, my text console becomes 67 rows, 240 columns > > (according to `stty -a`) with a very small font. > > > > How can I configure a larger font with less rows and columns? All my > > knowledge of syscons, vidcontrol etc seems useless with vt+i915kms. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > -- > > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > > sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru > > The short answer is: load a larger font. You can use the > `vtfontcvt??? command to generate your own font from a bdf file - if > you don???t care what font, http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net is > available in a variety of sizes. I've tried converting some fonts from terminus-font-4.40/*.bdf, none have given a satisfactory result. If anyone has a decent-looking large FNT font (with Cyrillic characters), to make the vt console look more like the traditional 80x25 terminal, please share. > Fonts that you put in > /usr/share/vt/fonts will show up in `vidfont' too. And what's the rc.conf variable for setting the vidfont at boot time? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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