Hi there,
I've just compiled brand new FreeBSD 13-STABLE on my home server with vt(4) driver. Since the stock console font is too large for me I want to set a smaller one. I also use lightgreen foreground color for years.
What I want to achieve? Set the vgarom-8x16 font and lightgreen color during system start on all consoles.
Here's my problem.
In the /etc/rc.conf I set
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work as well.
Running vidcontrol(8) command by hand it also doesn't work to set font and foreground color at once.
So, configuring these two options in /etc/rc.conf file is not working. If I set only font or only color, then it works.
When it's combined, it doesn't.
As a workaround I created simple rc start script I put in /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory to change a foreground color, when the font is configured in /etc/rc.conf.
I do not want to configure color in the /boot/loader.conf because it hurts a little color in Midnight Commander.
Any suggestions?
My server: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus. I'm connecting to server via Java Web Console plugin from HP iLO5 Advanced.
Huh! There is another problem I don't know how to fix. Here I can not to change screen resolution to any other resolutions as of square pixels 4x3. Well, I can live with that, but any other resolutions set in /boot/loader.conf, for example:
just doesn't work. Maybe it's Java related problem?
Best regards,
Mariusz
I've just compiled brand new FreeBSD 13-STABLE on my home server with vt(4) driver. Since the stock console font is too large for me I want to set a smaller one. I also use lightgreen foreground color for years.
What I want to achieve? Set the vgarom-8x16 font and lightgreen color during system start on all consoles.
Here's my problem.
In the /etc/rc.conf I set
allscreens_flags
as follows:
Code:
allscreens_flags="-f vgarom-8x16 lightgreen"
Code:
allscreens_flags="lightgreen -f vgarom-8x16"
Running vidcontrol(8) command by hand it also doesn't work to set font and foreground color at once.
So, configuring these two options in /etc/rc.conf file is not working. If I set only font or only color, then it works.
When it's combined, it doesn't.
As a workaround I created simple rc start script I put in /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory to change a foreground color, when the font is configured in /etc/rc.conf.
I do not want to configure color in the /boot/loader.conf because it hurts a little color in Midnight Commander.
Any suggestions?
My server: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus. I'm connecting to server via Java Web Console plugin from HP iLO5 Advanced.
Huh! There is another problem I don't know how to fix. Here I can not to change screen resolution to any other resolutions as of square pixels 4x3. Well, I can live with that, but any other resolutions set in /boot/loader.conf, for example:
Code:
efi_max_resolution="1440x900"
Best regards,
Mariusz
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