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Date:      Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:53:45 -0500
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        swildner@gmail.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
Subject:   Re: kern/71142: [syscons] [patch] add vesa [1024x768] mode support
Message-ID:  <200511221253.46662.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <1132675027.375055.81000@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
References:  <200511211601.21278.lists@jnielsen.net> <1132675027.375055.81000@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

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On Tuesday 22 November 2005 10:57 am, swildner@gmail.com wrote:
> John,
>
> you can select fonts for vesa modes with vidcontrol's -f option:
>
> Example:
>
> # vidcontrol -f 8x14 iso-8x14.fnt MODE_xxx
>
> For text modes, I don't think you can set a font size.
>
> Sascha
>
> P.S. Sorry this is private email only (Google groups is giving me
> trouble).

Thank you!  (And thanks to Eric Kjeldergaard, who also clued me in to this).  
I've never used -f on the same vidcontrol command with a new video mode; only 
beforehand as in my original e-mail.  The above method works very well.

JN



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