Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)
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 -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion'