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

In reply to: Michael Schuster : "Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)"
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From: Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:28:14 UTC


> On 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Toomas,
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com <mailto:tsoome@me.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com <mailto: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

You are welcome.

rgds,
toomas