font size on console.

[Hauan, David]

 -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Kjeldergaard [mailto:kjelderg at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 5:28 PM
> To: Giorgos Keramidas
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: font size on console.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas 
> <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > On 2004-10-25 08:48, pixiedave <pixiedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > hey all, is therer a way to adjust the "resolution" on 
> the console?  
> > > I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does 
> > > not apear to do anything.  I have huge characters, and like small 
> > > size fonts and more real estate.
> > >
> > > If it matters, ATI 7500 TV card and a 17 inch lcd 
> display. Running 
> > > 6.0 on a P4 Intel Board.
> > 
> > You can always try to kldload vesa.ko at boot time and then 
> experiment 
> > with VESA 800x600 modes:
> > 
> >         # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600
> > 
> 
> Even without the VESA being loaded, setting appropriate fonts 
> and doing a vidcontrol 80x60 will be a big help.  I run the 
> 80x60 on my laptop which is a radeon 7500 14" LCD.  It gives 
> me a LOT more text area.  man vidcontrol is the real resource 
> on the matter.
> 
> > Someone was working on improved VESA support for the 
> FreeBSD console. 
> > The last time I checked the patch that floated around the -current 
> > mailing list, it supported 800x600 modes, 1024x768, even 
> 1280x1024 on 
> > some adapters.
> > 
> > Then, there's always X11 :-)
> 
> I didn't know that one could pass 1024x768.  Thought there 
> was some or another issue with it, but maybe that's just for 
> displaying splash images.
> 

So where is the best place to load this at boot so when
all users log in they get the vidcontrol settings I set.

thanks
dave