> On 27. Feb 2022, at 23:36, Michael Schuster <michaelspriv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a smaller font in my text-consoles (using vt) on my Ryzen > 4700 and Vega10 Renoir - based laptop with a fresh install of FreeBSD CURRENT > from last week. > > My research led me to believe that using vidcontrol would help me here, but > however I do try, "vidcontrol -i mode" prints nothing except the header line, > and other "vidcontrol" subcommands give me "Inappropriate ioctl for device". > > I tried a few things > - switched to sc via setting "kern.vty=sc" in /boot/loader.conf, this caused > a hang on reboot > - setting "hw.vga.textmode" to 1 > - "kldload vesa" > ... and probably a few other things I now forget, all to no effect - I still > get nothing. > > I then performed an update from a freshly 'git pulled' source today (kernel, > world, drm-devel-kmod), a simple "vidcontrol" test still shows the same. > > I know it can work because I had a smaller font before I re-installed over > the previous installation (which originally came from ghostbsd in Aug 2020), > so - I assume - it can't be rocket science :-) > I'd appreciate further hints/pointers/RTFMs (though I've tried quite a few of > those). >
UEFI or BIOS setup? With UEFI, sc and hw.vga.textmode has no effect. With UEFI or BIOS+hw.vga.textmode=0, you can set screen.font variable (empty value will cause the values list to be printed), or use loadfont command with your custom font file (created with vtfontcvt). rgds, toomas
