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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Polytropon wrote:

>> For the former, removing the previous advice from loader.conf would be the
>> first step.  Then you should be able to find an acceptable setting
>> experimenting with vidcontrol eg resolution/fonts.
>
> With vidcontrol, I only get error messages. I think it ie tied
> to sc? I also have no idea what font names to try...

Yes, it depends on VESA support by the video card.

Instead, try the "gop" command in the loader to list and set modes.