Highest version with VGA fonts

Trond Endrestøl Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no
Fri Aug 7 07:03:18 UTC 2015


On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 03:40-0500, Lars Eighner wrote:

> What is the highest version of FreeBSD which still uses VGA fonts and CONS*
> consoles (i.e. no raster fonts, no unicode, plain old iso-8859-1) in plain
> text mode?
> 
> 
> Is there a BSD branch that is sticking with true text consoles?

If you want to enforce the old syscons console in 10 onwards, try 
adding this line to /boot/loader.conf:

kern.vty="sc"

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