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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:08:42 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
Cc:        Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing font size of tty
Message-ID:  <20021021200842.GA12838@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <11241.1035190066@www19.gmx.net> <20021021115605.GE27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain>

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:37:35PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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

Why not just add vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf ? Far nicer
than hacking a startup file :)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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