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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:59:50 -0700
From:      "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <mirror176@hotmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tiny print in terminal
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On 1/28/24 13:50, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Paul M Foster:
>> I'm getting incredibly small printing at the console, incredibly hard
>> to read.  Any way I can increase the size of the print?
> 
> set "screen.font" in /boot/loader.conf.  on a 4K, 27" display i use:
> 
> screen.font="12x24"
> 
> but this might be a bit large for your display.  the available fonts are
> listed in /boot/fonts and are helpfully named after their size.
> 
> (NB: i've only tested this on an EFI system using EFIRT for v(4); i
> don't know if this works on a BIOS system.)

The abilities and settings to change things are different on BIOS (sc or 
vt) and UEFI (vt) If I recall, these were examples of me working with it 
on the older scons(?) terminal though I cared more about trying to get 
increased resolution rather than decreased as the terminal was being 
stretched to a 24" 1920x1200 screen as an 80x25 or so character grid. 
GPU in use was NVIDIA GTX-570 which has different disappointing issues 
on each console driver's abilities.
 From my old /etc.rc.conf:
font8x14="iso-8x14"
font8x16="swiss-8x16"
font8x8="swiss-8x8"
allscreens_flags="MODE_30"




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