Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:03:18 -0500 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Console resolution/font size Message-ID: <20201125020318.30f5921d6fee3e267945a243@3dresearch.com>
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Hello,
I have a newly installed FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT Thinkpad T480:
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 2ed50808d2b-c254384(main): Thu Nov 12 07:29:09 UTC 2020
root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
FreeBSD clang version 11.0.0 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-11.0.0-0-g176249bd673)
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
VT(efifb): resolution 1920x1080
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz (1896.08-MHz K8-class CPU)
[...]
The screen is hardly readable at the resolution 1920x1080.
At boot time I escaped to loader prompt and selected "mode 3" which
gave the screen resolution 800x600.
In /boot/loader.conf I added:
hw.vga.textmode=1
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="800x600"
But after reboot, I'm back to the nearly unusable resolution of
1920x1080.
How can I make a specific console resolution presistent across reboots?
And how would I set a resolution between 800x600 and 1920x1080? Why is
the setting in /boot/loader.conf ignored?
--
Janos Dohanics
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