On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 20:35, RVP <r...@sdf.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Riza Dindir wrote: > > > But is it possible to download other fonts from somewhere? I could put > > these into the /usr/share/wscons/fonts directory and could have a > > console that has smaller fonts at the end of the boot process. > > > > Both TTF fonts and BDF fonts can be used if you convert them into WSFont > format first. There are 2 utilities, bdfload & ttf2wsfont, available in > /usr/xsrc/local/programs/ which'll do this--if you compile them first. > > > Would it be possible to use the spleen* fonts from within wscons? I > > think that would be possible. > > > > Absolutely: > > $ tail -n6 /etc/wscons.conf > # Change VT font > font spleen 12 24 iso > /usr/share/wscons/fonts/spleen-12x24.fnt > setvar ttyE0 font spleen > setvar ttyE1 font spleen > setvar ttyE2 font spleen > setvar ttyE3 font spleen > $
When I add this to wscons.conf, I get: ttyE0: wsconsctl: WSDISPLAYIO_SFONT: Device not configured ttyE1: wsconsctl: WSDISPLAYIO_SFONT: Device not configured ttyE2: wsconsctl: WSDISPLAYIO_SFONT: Device not configured ttyE3: wsconsctl: WSDISPLAYIO_SFONT: Device not configured /etc/rc.d/wscons exited with code 1 Any pointers? > > -RVP -- ----
