Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:35:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709091229080.24494@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20170909234837.P23641@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.89.1504958402.8411.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20170909234837.P23641@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Ian Smith wrote: [gop] > Warren, are there any docs on this at all, even if only commit messages? > and does this code imply that it's only useful for EFI boot? I don't think so. At one point, I was trying to write some. It would also be useful to know where this could be set permanently. Someone claimed this could be set in a config file, probably loader.conf, but I tested it without success. > Poly, as someone else with 'senior' eyesight and a long memory, I feel > your pain. I've been working in (lots of) 120 x 50 konsoles in old KDE > on 14" LCD for years, but that's only easy on good days now, and I keep > a magnifying glass handy - but that uses up one hand :) > > I wonder if a big LCD screen might fare better than a big CRT with this? I don't see how there would be a difference, unless maybe it is limited to what the monitor supports and reports in the EDID data, and the CRT monitor has a lower supported maximum resolution. On systems where I never plan to use X, I use hw.vga.textmode=1. It's been a while since I investigated this, so I have probably forgotten important details.
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