Changing the default text size on console session [SOLVED]

Gary W. Swearingen underway at comcast.net
Sun Apr 11 06:36:18 PDT 2004


"Colin J. Raven" <cjraven at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Greetings and thanks/kudos to all respondents on this issue.
>
> The short form of the answer - for the archives - is:
>
> man vidcontrol (yes, really) 

Another answer (to switch to a much smaller text size):

Put this in your /boot/loader.conf

    vesa_load="YES"

and put something like this in your /etc/rc.conf

   font8x16="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso15-thin-8x16.fnt"
   font8x8="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp437-thin-8x8.fnt"
   allscreens_flags="132x43"

That's what I'm using, but I'm wondering why I have those two font
definitions there.


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