Restoring sc console look and feel with vt

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> 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...
>

 Does your video hw requite kms?  If so, when is it loaded?  It should
loaded from loader.conf, not later.

You may need to explicitly define:

hw.vga.textmode=0

You can load fonts with:

vidcontrol -f <font_name>

Fonts should be located in:

/usr/share/vt/fonts/


-- 
Adam