From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 15:59:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69095BC22E4 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2AC1236 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.5_1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 39326405; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:59:22 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u7NFxcGN006663; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:59:38 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id u7NFxZG1006662; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:59:35 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:59:35 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Felix Friedlander Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: font size in vt Message-ID: <20160823155935.GB6279@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20160823055853.GA96874@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <284553A2-D8C5-4B15-A063-4C88E8D43196@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <284553A2-D8C5-4B15-A063-4C88E8D43196@gmail.com> Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:59:41 -0000 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