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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > I suppose I should have been more precise as to what I was doing and
 > wanted to do:
 > 
 > TERM=cons25
 > 
 > In /etc/rc.conf, I've been experimenting with various fonts. I now
 > understand from a reply to a previous question of mine, that the fonts I
 > use must be "matched" to the correct termcap console. So I've been
 > editting ttys, trying out cons25l1, cons25w, etc etc. Before I got the
 > nerve to try "kill -HUP 1", I simply did "shutdown -r now", to
 > re-initialize the system. When I first tried "kill -HUP 1, I _did not_
 > expect a "pat on the back" from the system, congradulating me on a
 > successful "kill" ;-) -- rather I was looking for the problem's symptoms
 > to have disappeared, or different symptom's for the same problem. Nothing
 > happened; nothing changed with my consoles, leading me to believe that I
 > had screwed  up the command somehow.

OK, here are step-by-step instructions.

 - Be sure that you have ISO 8859-1 fonts loaded.
   Use ``vidcontrol -f'' for this; see the manual page.
   Add the appropriate entries to /etc/rc.conf to have
   the fonts loaded upon boot automatically (see
   /etc/defaults/rc.conf).  DO NOT use a screenmap.

 - Edit /etc/ttys and change "cons25" to "cons25l1".
   This will change the default $TERM (termcap) setting
   for the console and virtual terminals.

 - For the change to take effect, type ``kill -HUP 1''
   (be careful to type this command exactly like that --
   a typo can cause a reboot!  See "man 8 init").
   This should restart the getty processes that are running
   on the vritual terminals.

 - You can type ``echo $TERM'' to verify the correct
   setting.  It should print ``cons25l1''.  If it doesn't,
   try setting it manually -- this depends on your shell.
   For sh, ksh, bash, zsh:
      export TERM=cons25l1
   For csh, tcsh:
      setenv TERM cons25l1

Regards
   Oliver

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