vt(4) "newcons" and 80x25 vty? (tested: 10.1-BETA2)

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Hi!

On 29.09.2014 06:20, beeessdee at ruggedinbox.com wrote:
> * hw.vga.textmode=1 not affect situation with kms driver loaded:  Tiny
> characters, much too many lines/cols.

Correct: loading a video driver changes the video mode to the
"preferred" mode (usually the screen native resolution).

> * VT in VGA textmode fonts loading broken (tested 10.1-BETA2).  Tried
> vidfont(1) and also vidcontrol -f [size] [filename].  For loading "VGA"
> fonts, screen weird/unusable (see below).  For loading Gallant (12x22),
> the virtual terminal freeze (both other vty still ok).

Still correct: there's a bug here. In VGA text mode, loading a font
should be rejected. The purpose of text mode is to let the video card
draw the text itself.

> Obvious the 12x22 font (as gallant) will not expect working in
> "textmode".  And does not work (hangs vty).  As stated in previous mail,
> with kms driver vidfont(1) has bug prevent gallant load (but vidcontrol
> -f works).

I didn't know this vidfont(1) tool and obviously never tested it. This
tools must be revisited for vt(4).

Regarding your initial problem, yes, we still have work to do to allow a
user to configure a readable font. This is known issue. Unfortunately,
it won't make it to 10.1-RELEASE as you mentionned.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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