Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:56:48 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt Message-ID: <59AEAD20.8050006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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 or this to tell vt to use text mode which looks and feels like sc hw.vga.textmode=1 thats a digit one
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