Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:32:40 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: font size in vt Message-ID: <57BC7AA8.8080301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160823155935.GB6279@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20160823055853.GA96874@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <284553A2-D8C5-4B15-A063-4C88E8D43196@gmail.com> <20160823155935.GB6279@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
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Victor Sudakov wrote: > Felix Friedlander wrote: >>> I'm currently using vt(4) for my console on a 10.3-RELEASE system. >>> With the i915kms.ko loaded, my text console becomes 67 rows, 240 columns >>> (according to `stty -a`) with a very small font. >>> >>> How can I configure a larger font with less rows and columns? All my >>> knowledge of syscons, vidcontrol etc seems useless with vt+i915kms. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help. >>> >>> -- >>> Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN >>> sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru >> The short answer is: load a larger font. You can use the >> `vtfontcvt??? command to generate your own font from a bdf file - if >> you don???t care what font, http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net is >> available in a variety of sizes. > > I've tried converting some fonts from terminus-font-4.40/*.bdf, > none have given a satisfactory result. If anyone has a decent-looking > large FNT font (with Cyrillic characters), to make the vt console look > more like the traditional 80x25 terminal, please share. > >> Fonts that you put in >> /usr/share/vt/fonts will show up in `vidfont' too. > > And what's the rc.conf variable for setting the vidfont at boot time? > > In /boot/loader.conf add these two lines to have vt console look more like the traditional sc 80x25 terminal, kern.vty=vt hw.vga.textmode=1
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