From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 5 13:51:09 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 42FC7E0A84B for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22f.google.com (mail-io0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC37B6CFC4 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id y123so16418252iod.0 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:51:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eNFG0tusA5uSSFHYEpDWqojpMvLGPt38ibyiGg35d0E=; b=AogmuN09pQ1D6dy/YM3XOM9uq0PaT8e9UdDsNs75yJiR9svUxrHsQHPNPMsLCysOCR CHks+4+B6qcGOOm22lbdJ4dtwWhtEn5deIk7SAUQuqGIkw1tnp5Z02NoJrG6KbvdxKEj f7NjbfTfWk391oZ91AXbfY/hYBjKt9G3ajfkfBQ8OcLncYrw5xag+YsMzAUZ9ngRh8M0 4+wBIeUcabtjag30K5lZkptK996Fb5rkpb9JiOOkUnoMLBdfggUQsFIFGSl/1txpMid2 8crh15KZVoBWrjo7HzxCEWgpbIqauaEujQXvFNhEBDkdSHM8nHMF+3tFI+aC0hkDVRog 3aCg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eNFG0tusA5uSSFHYEpDWqojpMvLGPt38ibyiGg35d0E=; b=lzHcPYm2ir7pZyw3o58BaD0lU0PPJhIhld7CYUHJ7cDC+pwqpEuNRFeM1hiHJualX/ ossdE5zb/2jXBvxW4B4wrlWmk3GodZ0FaRa6puCMeX6kzEYx4HSqeaNVyKMcSiJkioxY kGBMHGlRXYV3lx8apnmrruVBgdoq7Qrp4ZeFyTl8TFhMQDHUUkE4mXjOyHNy4kytOiru xbn69F/92ULABWDzpFkdGPtQUS4XO+mfVYEqsnXZwE82cFE/jpk9H6dvyGikqR9Zzy9Q OctJbQRKlUCZXeshzcdZASUMulMPqCFPDNJ63VoDQQvpoOfGA2GfLARw9xmhv/FJdCPQ cMnw== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUh8bZOj6UhGKsr46Kqf7arvwQHTZzITmNrkYj+CozCuHpdW5A+V Qwl/XoB7aWXoLVdq X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb72JLBk1+7Fq50LH5vwl5BOhF0OV87QOeaknW+T6Web6349JfwW6Rv0MYm/vQKd9EfpFIdS0w== X-Received: by 10.36.225.202 with SMTP id n193mr4479183ith.106.1504619468347; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.3] (cpe-74-141-88-147.neo.res.rr.com. [74.141.88.147]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id h3sm274538iob.23.2017.09.05.06.51.07 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <59AEABC8.9020808@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:51:04 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:51:09 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > As more and more systems got updated, vt has become the default > console driver, and sc and modern X seem to heavily collide, so > there is no way back. However, even though vt basically works, > the modes it automatically chooses are far from usable from my > point of view: The text is far too small to be conveniently read. > Also the colors seem to be "wrong" and of low contrast (compared > to sc, that is, on the same hardware). > > The "just works" feeling somehow has been lost... :-( > > Basically, I'd like to know if it is possible to configure vt > in a way that it displays a 80x25 text mode with whatever font. > I don't even mind if the "drawing characters" (pseudographic > block characters for boxes, such as in the Midnight Commander) > stopped working long time ago, especially in combination with > the use of german Umlauts and Eszett (öäü ÖÄÜ and ß) - UTF-8 > vs. ISO-8859-1 in text mode is a totally different problem. > If I have to select from a plethora of fonts, I don't mind, > but I'd like to know beforehand _which_ font, and what other > parameters I have to adjust in order to get vt starting to work > like sc did for decades. > > Is that easily possible? > > Experimental system is FreeBSD/i386 10.3-p22 (held current with > freebsd-update). > > > Add this to /boot/loader.conf to return to sc mode. kern.vty=sc