From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 9 18:35:23 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C345E014DF for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:35:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3F1572F46 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:35:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v89IZBCe026610 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:35:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id v89IZBA6026607; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:35:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:35:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ian Smith cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Adam Vande More Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt In-Reply-To: <20170909234837.P23641@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Message-ID: References: <20170909234837.P23641@sola.nimnet.asn.au> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (BSF 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:35:11 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:35:23 -0000 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.