Horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable

Ronald Klop ronald-lists at klop.ws
Sat Mar 11 22:05:58 UTC 2017


On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:38:33 +0100, Lars Eighner  
<stableuser at larseighner.com> wrote:

> What is with the horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable? I have tried  
> them all and they are each more hiddeous than the other.
>
> Is there anyway to get the VGA fonts back. I never want any characters  
> outside of Latin I.
>
> Text programs are the only reason I use FreeBSD (it sure is not for the  
> pathetic X.org). How can anyone work with the horrible text fonts which  
> I suspect are some horrible raster fonts which reset video every time I  
> switch virtual terms?
>
>
>

 From 'man vt':

      hw.vga.textmode
              Set to 1 to use virtual terminals in text mode instead of
              graphics mode.  Features that require graphics mode, like
              loadable fonts, will be disabled.

You can set this in /boot/loader.conf.

Regards,
Ronald.


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