Restoring sc console look and feel with vt

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:37:57 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:56:48 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> > > Add this to /boot/loader.conf to return to sc mode.
> > > kern.vty=sc
> > >
> > > or this to tell vt to use text mode which looks and feels like sc
> > > hw.vga.textmode=1
> > >
> > > thats a digit one
> >
> > Tried, but doesn't work.
> >
> > With sc:
> >
> > text (normal) -> X (works) -> black
> >
> > or
> >
> > text (normal) -> X (throws error) -> black
> >
> > With vt:
> >
> > text (boots normal, but then too small) -> X (works) -> text (too small)
> >
> > or
> >
> > text (boots normal and stays that way) -> X (works) -> text (now too small)
> >
> >
> >
> > Reverting to sc is _not_ an option. I assume it will be removed
> > from the system at some point in the future, that's why dealing
> > with vt and configuring it is probably the right way to go.
> >
> 
> I'm having a hard time understanding if your console text is too small or
> your windowed text.  If the latter, then vt settings will not help.

I'll try to express better:

When the system boots, the screen uses 80x25 characters. The
character size depends on the screen size of course. With sc,
I get "big letters" on a 21" CRT, as intended.

When booting with vt, the system starts booting with the 80x25
mode, then switches to a font where I'd say the screen has
160x100 characters (just a guess, I didn't count them actually).
Those are "small letters", even on a 21" CRT, too small for me
to be read conveniently.

So what I need is a way to tell vt to display 80x25 characters
that "scale up", and generally make them look like the regular
sc text mode.



> For the former, removing the previous advice from loader.conf would be the
> first step.  Then you should be able to find an acceptable setting
> experimenting with vidcontrol eg resolution/fonts.

With vidcontrol, I only get error messages. I think it ie tied
to sc? I also have no idea what font names to try...


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