From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 12:35:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F78E37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8AD43E6A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021021193521.BPTZ26524.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:35:21 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9LJbfUW007513; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9LJbZa0007510; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing font size of tty References: <11241.1035190066@www19.gmx.net> <20021021115605.GE27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 21 Oct 2002 12:37:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021021115605.GE27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman writes: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:47:46AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > > > how do i change the font size of the tty0? > > vidcontrol(1) You might be able to do it more permanently with /etc/rc.conf; I changed all my ttys with: font8x16="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso15-thin-8x16.fnt" font8x8="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp437-thin-8x8.fnt" allscreens_flags="132x43" Plus, to support the "132", I kludged /etc/rc.syscons to do: kldload vesa There's also some font stuff in LINT, but it's probably no use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message