Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:50:31 +0100 From: Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> Cc: 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: <e1570eb9-e2ca-29f3-e93d-f33e161d0072@omnilan.de> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gKFRa3FxzwjcHbTg0BT6LFfLH3ErniGJazqi1A-5JJeEA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BBE43B01-BC71-40E3-8F9F-4866698E98F9@me.com> <1843171392.1568.1646037086280@localhost> <CADqw_gKFRa3FxzwjcHbTg0BT6LFfLH3ErniGJazqi1A-5JJeEA@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 28.02.2022 um 09:35 schrieb Michael Schuster: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:31 AM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws > <mailto:ronald-lists@klop.ws>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Where would this sysctl needed to be documented for the OP to > find it? > There's many things to consider these days, so hard to find a single place I guess... (and IMHO currently no severe issue, since these days, if defaults don't match perfectly, users get too big fonts instead of unreadable small fonts) > > IMO vt(4) would have been a good place. vt(4) is no consumer of the 'screen.font' loader tunable. In case vt(4) uses efifb for output, resolution is unchangeable and vidfont(1)/kbdmap(1) refers to a different set of fonts by default as loader does. Of course, there's filesystem boundaries to consider, but I don't know the reason why /usr/share/vt/fonts isn't simply a link to /boot/fonts/ - both sets are almost identical in size. Some time ago, I proposed a generic boot/loader.conf file, which I created as a starting point to describe the BIOS/UEFI|loader|console(vt(4)\sc(4)) relations: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256343 This is only a proposal, and reflects just my own needs/confusion of the past, but probably help other too, getting an overview and finding the corresponding docs/man pages. It is quiet large, but I felt it's necessary to also mention KMS/drm. It's boot/loader description biased, but also contains Serial console and Video console specific hints. -harry
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