Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:29:36 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Relapse to 80x25 text mode from X Message-ID: <20160920235423.K6806@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.1825.1473822443.1478.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.1825.1473822443.1478.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 641, Issue 3, Message: 15 On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:59:43 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > When I initially installed X on my "new" Lenovo Thinkpad R61i, > after leaving X (or after switching to text mode with the > key combination Ctrl+Alt+PF1) the screen would still show > the X image, leaving me "blind" at the console. Changing > the sc driver to vt solved that problem, but opened a new > one: The text mode font is tiny and unreadable. > > What is the preferred way of keeping the console in 80x25 > mode _and_ being able to switch from/to X? > > My /boot/loader.conf currently contains: > > kern.vty=vt > kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x800" > hw.vga.textmode=1 > i915kms_load="YES" > > In /etc/rc.conf I have tried > > allscreens_flags="-f gallant" > > as suggested somewhere, but that just slightly increases > the font size (still more than 80x25) and looks ugly. > > The laptop contains an Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 GPU. The > screen has a physical size of 1280 x 800 pixels. > > > > In other words: Is it possible to relapse to the default > behaviour of 80x25 sc and X that has worked for decades? > If yes, how? I don't know but I'd like to, and I don't know but I'd like to, too. Hugely behind, I was just quickly scanning this month's archives at https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-September/thread.html when I noticed this poor lonely little message, unreplied to. And of course searching that page for 'Poly' shows 14 messages tonight from you helping others, as usual, plus this one. I still use sc on two older laptops, but saw quite a few messages about this, perhaps on stable@, but didn't wind up grokking a clear solution or I'd have clipped it. So this is just a dreaded 'bump' .. someone/s must know all about this? cheers, Ian
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