From nobody Mon Feb 28 14:50:31 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4174619E0841 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mx0.gentlemail.de (mx0.gentlemail.de [IPv6:2a00:e10:2800::a130]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4K6jww2CRdz4k6H for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:50:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mh0.gentlemail.de (mh0.gentlemail.de [IPv6:2a00:e10:2800:0:0:0:0:a135]) by mx0.gentlemail.de (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 21SEoWO5038704; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:50:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net (s1.omnilan.de [217.91.127.234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mh0.gentlemail.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6E20929; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:50:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font) To: Michael Schuster , Ronald Klop Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT , Toomas Soome References: <1843171392.1568.1646037086280@localhost> From: Harry Schmalzbauer Organization: OmniLAN Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:50:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4K6jww2CRdz4k6H X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@omnilan.de designates 2a00:e10:2800::a130 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@omnilan.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.30 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[omnilan.de]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[0.999]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com,klop.ws]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:61157, ipnet:2a00:e10:2800::/38, country:DE]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[freebsd.org,me.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Am 28.02.2022 um 09:35 schrieb Michael Schuster: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:31 AM Ronald Klop > 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