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

Am 28.02.2022 um 09:35 schrieb Michael Schuster:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:31 AM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws 
> <mailto:ronald-lists@klop.ws>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Where would this sysctl needed to be documented  for the OP to
>     find it?
>

There's many things to consider these days, so hard to find a single 
place I guess...
(and IMHO currently no severe issue, since these days, if defaults don't 
match perfectly, users get too big fonts instead of unreadable small fonts)

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

vt(4) is no consumer of the 'screen.font' loader tunable.  In case vt(4) 
uses efifb for output, resolution is unchangeable and 
vidfont(1)/kbdmap(1) refers to a different set of fonts by default as 
loader does.  Of course, there's filesystem boundaries to consider, but 
I don't know the reason why /usr/share/vt/fonts isn't simply a link to 
/boot/fonts/ - both sets are almost identical in size.

Some time ago, I proposed a generic boot/loader.conf file, which I 
created as a starting point to describe the 
BIOS/UEFI|loader|console(vt(4)\sc(4)) relations:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256343

This is only a proposal, and reflects just my own needs/confusion of the 
past, but probably help other too, getting an overview and finding the 
corresponding docs/man pages.
It is quiet large, but I felt it's necessary to also mention KMS/drm.
It's boot/loader description biased, but also contains Serial console 
and Video console specific hints.

-harry