From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13: 8:55 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 5017837B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (81-86-164-179.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.164.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C6F43E42 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:08:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from simond by home.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 183iqw-0003LF-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:08:42 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:08:42 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Pascal Giannakakis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing font size of tty Message-ID: <20021021200842.GA12838@irrelevant.org> References: <11241.1035190066@www19.gmx.net> <20021021115605.GE27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *183iqw-0003LF-00*CjIhMNVPZ6I* 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 On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:37:35PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > 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 Why not just add vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf ? Far nicer than hacking a startup file :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message