Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)

From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:23:41 UTC
Hi Toomas,


On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get a smaller font in my text-consoles (using vt) on my
> Ryzen 4700 and Vega10 Renoir - based laptop with a fresh install of FreeBSD
> CURRENT from last week.
>
> [...]


> UEFI or BIOS setup?
>

UEFI


> With UEFI, sc and hw.vga.textmode has no effect. With UEFI or
> BIOS+hw.vga.textmode=0, you can set screen.font variable (empty value will
> cause the values list to be printed), or use loadfont command with your
> custom font file (created with vtfontcvt).
>

I added 'screen.font="8x16"' to /boot/loader.conf, worked like a charm
first time.

Many thanks!
Michael
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