how to change console font type and size ?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Feb 23 15:22:12 UTC 2018


On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:18:41 -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2018, at 20:32, Adam <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:19 PM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2018-02-22 (10:43 MST), Craig Block via freebsd-questions <
> >> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> In my case I went back to using the sc driver
> >> 
> >> This seems the only rational choice for the majority of FreeBSD installs
> >> where a GUI is never loaded.
> >> 
> >> Really, vt should only be the default if the system is setup to run a
> >> desktop, as for console use it's a disaster.
> > 
> > Works no worse than sc for my console usage, I think it's great.
> 
> After much fighting I was never able to get the vt to display
> anything but 80char x 24char console on a 20” LCD screen.

I wish I could get _that_ mode back! On a 21" CRT (attached to
a laptop whose screen backlight died), I get lots of modes, but
none is readable... :-(




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