RE: font size on console.
-Original Message- From: Eric Kjeldergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 5:28 PM To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: font size on console. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-25 08:48, pixiedave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all, is therer a way to adjust the resolution on the console? I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does not apear to do anything. I have huge characters, and like small size fonts and more real estate. If it matters, ATI 7500 TV card and a 17 inch lcd display. Running 6.0 on a P4 Intel Board. You can always try to kldload vesa.ko at boot time and then experiment with VESA 800x600 modes: # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Even without the VESA being loaded, setting appropriate fonts and doing a vidcontrol 80x60 will be a big help. I run the 80x60 on my laptop which is a radeon 7500 14 LCD. It gives me a LOT more text area. man vidcontrol is the real resource on the matter. Someone was working on improved VESA support for the FreeBSD console. The last time I checked the patch that floated around the -current mailing list, it supported 800x600 modes, 1024x768, even 1280x1024 on some adapters. Then, there's always X11 :-) I didn't know that one could pass 1024x768. Thought there was some or another issue with it, but maybe that's just for displaying splash images. So where is the best place to load this at boot so when all users log in they get the vidcontrol settings I set. thanks dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: font size on console.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Hauan, David wrote: So where is the best place to load this at boot so when all users log in they get the vidcontrol settings I set. On my 4.9 system, I put the following into /etc/rc.conf: allscreens_flags=132x43 to set vidcontrol for all the ttys. It gets picked up by /etc/rc.syscons. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font size on console.
On 2004-10-27 17:28, Hauan, David wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: hey all, is therer a way to adjust the resolution on the console? I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does not apear to do anything. I have huge characters, and like small size fonts and more real estate. You can always try to kldload vesa.ko at boot time and then experiment with VESA 800x600 modes: # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Someone was working on improved VESA support for the FreeBSD console. The last time I checked the patch that floated around the -current mailing list, it supported 800x600 modes, 1024x768, even 1280x1024 on some adapters. I didn't know that one could pass 1024x768. Thought there was some or another issue with it, but maybe that's just for displaying splash images. So where is the best place to load this at boot so when all users log in they get the vidcontrol settings I set. If you're looking at a way to load vesa.ko at boot time, then the file /boot/loader.conf is what you want to tweak: vesa_load=YES will tell the boot loader that vesa.ko should be loaded at every boot. You can also compile VESA support in your kernel if you prefer that. See the Handbook's kernel configuration section and the VESA kernel option in LINT (for 4.X) or NOTES (for 5.X). - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font size on console.
On 2004-10-25 08:48, pixiedave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all, is therer a way to adjust the resolution on the console? I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does not apear to do anything. I have huge characters, and like small size fonts and more real estate. If it matters, ATI 7500 TV card and a 17 inch lcd display. Running 6.0 on a P4 Intel Board. You can always try to kldload vesa.ko at boot time and then experiment with VESA 800x600 modes: # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Someone was working on improved VESA support for the FreeBSD console. The last time I checked the patch that floated around the -current mailing list, it supported 800x600 modes, 1024x768, even 1280x1024 on some adapters. Then, there's always X11 :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font size on console.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:15:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-25 08:48, pixiedave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all, is therer a way to adjust the resolution on the console? I have played around with the settings in sysinstall, but it does not apear to do anything. I have huge characters, and like small size fonts and more real estate. If it matters, ATI 7500 TV card and a 17 inch lcd display. Running 6.0 on a P4 Intel Board. You can always try to kldload vesa.ko at boot time and then experiment with VESA 800x600 modes: # vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Even without the VESA being loaded, setting appropriate fonts and doing a vidcontrol 80x60 will be a big help. I run the 80x60 on my laptop which is a radeon 7500 14 LCD. It gives me a LOT more text area. man vidcontrol is the real resource on the matter. Someone was working on improved VESA support for the FreeBSD console. The last time I checked the patch that floated around the -current mailing list, it supported 800x600 modes, 1024x768, even 1280x1024 on some adapters. Then, there's always X11 :-) I didn't know that one could pass 1024x768. Thought there was some or another issue with it, but maybe that's just for displaying splash images. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
