Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:11:25 +0000 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more rows on my console? Message-ID: <20010102151125.C27487@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20001231142541.B329@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>; from dmaddox@sc.rr.com on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:25:41PM -0500 References: <20001230202954.A5515@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001230153638.A1419@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001231145932.B12295@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001231142541.B329@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:25:41PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: | On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:59:32PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: | > | # vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 (or some other 8x8 font - must be 8x8! ) | > | # vidcontrol MODE (where MODE is one of the modes you got from | > | 'vidcontrol -i mode') | > | > I guess this is the problem. My wterm window has a gread 7x14 font. 8x8 | > just doesn't look as good. | | Since there are no 7x14 fonts in the /usr/share/syscons/fonts dir, and | since as far as I can tell, syscons only supports 8x8, 8x14, and 8x16 | font sizes, I'm not sure how to interpret this. Is it a typo? I have | to assume that 'wterm' is a typo too, right? I use xterm and wterm. Wterm has better default fonts, and makes for a great mutt mailreading window on my laptop. But the syscons can't show as much text info. According to the wterm man page, the default font is 7x14. jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org They laugh because I'm different. I laugh because they're all the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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