SOLVED: How to show more text than 80x25

Ulysses_

Is there something that can be configured in /boot/local.conf or elsewhere, so after boot the display shows more than 80x25 characters? More lines are especially needed.

This is for a vmware VM.

jimp

Drop this in /boot/loader.conf.local, salt to taste:

hw.vga.textmode=0
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x800"

From there you should be able to mess around with videomode to adjust the terminal/font sizes.

Ulysses_

That produces an 80x30 character display (cool!) with a definition of 640x480.

How do I mess with videomode for even more characters, and preferably bigger fonts?

jimp

Sorry, I meant the vidcontrol command should be able to change the font. There are lots of examples around for FreeBSD with that.

jimp

If that doesn't pan out, you can try switching back to sc:

kern.vty=sc
hint.sc.0.flags="0x180"
hint.sc.0.vesa_mode="279"