Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:13:04 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2p4ThWBOLvVxU%2B3hjR-ssdg4a9J5KPqBcE2Nu2G5egQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170905204920.2b709f7a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170905151245.f592508c.freebsd@edvax.de> <59AEAD20.8050006@gmail.com> <20170905201840.ae6b53ee.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2BtpaK2jMnej28pzdnz7=VKoj9uv7M4rfE%2Brf_d70hLfkduvkg@mail.gmail.com> <20170905204920.2b709f7a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > I'll try to express better: > > When the system boots, the screen uses 80x25 characters. The > character size depends on the screen size of course. With sc, > I get "big letters" on a 21" CRT, as intended. > > When booting with vt, the system starts booting with the 80x25 > mode, then switches to a font where I'd say the screen has > 160x100 characters (just a guess, I didn't count them actually). > Those are "small letters", even on a 21" CRT, too small for me > to be read conveniently. > > So what I need is a way to tell vt to display 80x25 characters > that "scale up", and generally make them look like the regular > sc text mode. > > > > > For the former, removing the previous advice from loader.conf would be > the > > first step. Then you should be able to find an acceptable setting > > experimenting with vidcontrol eg resolution/fonts. > > With vidcontrol, I only get error messages. I think it ie tied > to sc? I also have no idea what font names to try... > Does your video hw requite kms? If so, when is it loaded? It should loaded from loader.conf, not later. You may need to explicitly define: hw.vga.textmode=0 You can load fonts with: vidcontrol -f <font_name> Fonts should be located in: /usr/share/vt/fonts/ -- Adam
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