Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:54:30 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font) Message-ID: <DFFA5303-2A77-4FE7-B70E-0B8A4F185A23@me.com> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gJbZDHLf41t4%2BbgS2BZesWrovOUnoW_iV-wYdk%2Bpmm%2BiA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADqw_gJbZDHLf41t4%2BbgS2BZesWrovOUnoW_iV-wYdk%2Bpmm%2BiA@mail.gmail.com>
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Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a smaller font in my text-consoles (using vt) on my Ryzen 4700 and Vega10 Renoir - based laptop with a fresh install of FreeBSD CURRENT from last week. > > My research led me to believe that using vidcontrol would help me here, but however I do try, "vidcontrol -i mode" prints nothing except the header line, and other "vidcontrol" subcommands give me "Inappropriate ioctl for device". > > I tried a few things > - switched to sc via setting "kern.vty=sc" in /boot/loader.conf, this caused a hang on reboot > - setting "hw.vga.textmode" to 1 > - "kldload vesa" > ... and probably a few other things I now forget, all to no effect - I still get nothing. > > I then performed an update from a freshly 'git pulled' source today (kernel, world, drm-devel-kmod), a simple "vidcontrol" test still shows the same. > > I know it can work because I had a smaller font before I re-installed over the previous installation (which originally came from ghostbsd in Aug 2020), so - I assume - it can't be rocket science :-) > I'd appreciate further hints/pointers/RTFMs (though I've tried quite a few of those). > UEFI or BIOS setup? With UEFI, sc and hw.vga.textmode has no effect. With UEFI or BIOS+hw.vga.textmode=0, you can set screen.font variable (empty value will cause the values list to be printed), or use loadfont command with your custom font file (created with vtfontcvt). rgds, toomas [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <<a href="mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com" class="">michaelsprivate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm trying to get a smaller font in my text-consoles (using vt) on my Ryzen 4700 and Vega10 Renoir - based laptop with a fresh install of FreeBSD CURRENT from last week. <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My research led me to believe that using vidcontrol would help me here, but however I do try, "vidcontrol -i mode" prints nothing except the header line, and other "vidcontrol" subcommands give me "Inappropriate ioctl for device".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I tried a few things</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- switched to sc via setting "kern.vty=sc" in /boot/loader.conf, this caused a hang on reboot</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- setting "hw.vga.textmode" to 1</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- "kldload vesa"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">... and probably a few other things I now forget, all to no effect - I still get nothing.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I then performed an update from a freshly 'git pulled' source today (kernel, world, drm-devel-kmod), a simple "vidcontrol" test still shows the same.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I know it can work because I had a smaller font before I re-installed over the previous installation (which originally came from ghostbsd in Aug 2020), so - I assume - it can't be rocket science :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'd appreciate further hints/pointers/RTFMs (though I've tried quite a few of those).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>UEFI or BIOS setup? With UEFI, sc and hw.vga.textmode has no effect. With UEFI or BIOS+hw.vga.textmode=0, you can set screen.font variable (empty value will cause the values list to be printed), or use loadfont command with your custom font file (created with vtfontcvt).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>rgds,</div><div>toomas</div><br class=""></body></html>help
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