Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:28:14 +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: <BBE43B01-BC71-40E3-8F9F-4866698E98F9@me.com> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gKJzJwC2FjDK973i_n_fPEQ50yroNALgfsVFTjwzaBrvA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADqw_gJbZDHLf41t4%2BbgS2BZesWrovOUnoW_iV-wYdk%2Bpmm%2BiA@mail.gmail.com> <DFFA5303-2A77-4FE7-B70E-0B8A4F185A23@me.com> <CADqw_gKJzJwC2FjDK973i_n_fPEQ50yroNALgfsVFTjwzaBrvA@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > On 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Toomas, > > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com <mailto:tsoome@me.com>> wrote: > > >> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com <mailto: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. >> > > [...] > > > UEFI or BIOS setup? > > UEFI > > 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). > > I added 'screen.font="8x16"' to /boot/loader.conf, worked like a charm first time. > > Many thanks! > Michael You are welcome. 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 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, 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 dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Toomas,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <<a href="mailto:tsoome@me.com" class="">tsoome@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <<a href="mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">michaelsprivate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">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 style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[...]</span> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">UEFI or BIOS setup?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">UEFI</span></div><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""> 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></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I added 'screen.font="8x16"' to /boot/loader.conf, worked like a charm first time. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Many thanks!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michael</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>You are welcome.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>rgds,</div><div>toomas</div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>home | help
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