Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:31:26 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Subject: Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font) Message-ID: <1843171392.1568.1646037086280@localhost> In-Reply-To: <BBE43B01-BC71-40E3-8F9F-4866698E98F9@me.com>
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Hi,
Where would this sysctl needed to be documented for the OP to find it?
Regards,
Ronald
Van: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Datum: 28 februari 2022 08:29
Aan: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
CC: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)
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>> On 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Toomas,
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>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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).
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>> I added 'screen.font="8x16"' to /boot/loader.conf, worked like a charm first time.
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>> Many thanks!
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<html><head></head><body>Hi,<div><br /></div><div>Where would this sysctl needed to be documented for the OP to find it?</div><div><br /></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ronald</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><small><strong>Van:</strong> Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com><br /><strong>Datum:</strong> 28 februari 2022 08:29<br /><strong>Aan:</strong> Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com><br /><strong>CC:</strong> FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org><br /><strong>Onderwerp:</strong> Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)<br /></small></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 5px; border-left: 3px solid #ccc; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="MessageRFC822Viewer do_not_remove" id="P"><!-- P -->
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<br class="" /><div class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /><blockquote class=""><div class="do_not_remove">On 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, Michael Schuster <<a href="mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com" onclick="composeMailto('michaelsprivate@gmail.com'); return false;" class="">michaelsprivate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><div class="do_not_remove"><div class="do_not_remove"><div class="do_not_remove"><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Toomas,</div><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="" /></div></div><br class="" /><div class="gmail_quote do_not_remove"><div class="gmail_attr do_not_remove">On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <<a href="mailto:tsoome@me.com" onclick="composeMailto('tsoome@me.com'); return false;" 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="do_not_remove"><br class="" /><div class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /><blockquote class=""><div class="do_not_remove">On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <<a href="mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com" onclick="composeMailto('michaelsprivate@gmail.com'); return false;" target="_blank" class="">michaelsprivate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="" /><div class="do_not_remove"><div class="do_not_remove"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="do_not_remove">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="do_not_remove">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="do_not_remove"><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="" /></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="do_not_remove"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[...]</span> </div><div class="do_not_remove"><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="do_not_remove"><div class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /></div><div class="do_not_remove">UEFI or BIOS setup?</div></div></blockquote><div class="do_not_remove"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="do_not_remove"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">UEFI</span></div><div class="do_not_remove"><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="do_not_remove"><div class="do_not_remove"> 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="do_not_remove"><br class="" /></div><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" 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 do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class="" /></div><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Many thanks!</div><div class="gmail_default do_not_remove" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michael</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class="" /></div><div class="do_not_remove">You are welcome.</div><div class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /></div><div class="do_not_remove">rgds,</div><div class="do_not_remove">toomas</div><br class="" /><div class="do_not_remove"><br class="" /></div></div><!-- TextHTMLViewer -->
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