From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 5 13:56:51 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 DE8BEE0B006 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com (mail-io0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]) (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 A02856E356 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id q64so16498953iod.5 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:56:51 -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=E2U0xvupTfcVETh836+FFmRPvsUdEVSVURR6Cd2LtQM=; b=jTvD7o0sb69D2sTVY7swpvnmF3bA9WhelGLlWPM3OA3O0eBr5OLi49hAz5yFYCKnxw hUvbzNwUnJYLGX6yK9pv32HMXloEm/EpRcaINUq8Zm/DYbgvRQTFgMh8mUORRHPBjaML R9tRXIqMb2t7kxX9JzXnwryDw6ATWnrjV7HDLec3U21cL7iwN8GPQ5vI6YVjbY31JcW2 sq2+VRXtdVn9F4IUi34Z3odD1UyKRRjmeXeCrQrjLtTLJi+mmVdr+jU8mwJx4xWlWsXq 92GxkRKdL7v/pB0mIFhNx+Fsg++xGyHHCc71Utd6A8pudL+h78Ak3e0IqzjQedrnPaNb mtWw== 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=E2U0xvupTfcVETh836+FFmRPvsUdEVSVURR6Cd2LtQM=; b=WLT6l9965LJXZLd9CdPja2oG2T0dDpH8gh5DDirKIsEWwbtT9OvR4+S6AjVFdNcuMF LfNBsj++eQ3En0rkAETE3MnSJSwDWr/CSEIrJhwU+7T1+5seosiMriKTpzE4uCHFDLV8 YUKBChmSzWhASoHn4SgrLkSyu2isi9doT5Vr9y6VIV9W56Cr1nvxv/WAgk6Be2hK3xn1 eF6SRbVjwQfCZMaQa/KGWNQ/vgkmajsEmmE/ru3LEo+dXhSQM5oJ/mtPE05EOyvw9f8o PrWKsx/VvGgIHcT0eCpfT3z3yDNJun/Yz36cJU3DxhPtBxjbQ+AYmhPksm1aEnVthhPs o1Sg== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUixvccce6e+c7HNlko72zzANaGALocU2/1X0JP/cz4GPDaDf7bi Ulvwvd/D7I0q5w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb57BRz09E/PY4qQqpD4OOhQCTeqegXEXxroAtrlVaxKrkK9kjiT7uG3yTzVvDGvuvSVRdl7Eg== X-Received: by 10.36.127.146 with SMTP id r140mr4605517itc.79.1504619811002; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:56:51 -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 i125sm370579itf.1.2017.09.05.06.56.50 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <59AEAD20.8050006@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:56:48 -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 13:56:52 -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 or this to tell vt to use text mode which looks and feels like sc hw.vga.textmode=1 thats a digit one