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

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:31 AM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:

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

IMO vt(4) would have been a good place.

>
> 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)
>
>
>
> 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> 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
>
>
> You are welcome.
>
> rgds,
> toomas
>
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