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

From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:31:26 UTC
Hi,


Where would this sysctl needed to be documented  for the OP to find it?


Regards,
Ronald




Van: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Datum: 28 februari 2022 08:29
Aan: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
CC: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no output except header (in search of smaller console font)

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>> On 28. Feb 2022, at 08:23, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Toomas,
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>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:54 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> 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. 
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>>>> UEFI or BIOS setup?
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>>>  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).
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>> I added 'screen.font="8x16"' to /boot/loader.conf, worked like a charm first time. 
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>> Many thanks!
>> Michael
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> You are welcome.
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> rgds,
> toomas
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