What is with the horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable? I have tried them all and they are each more hiddeous than the other. Is there anyway to get the VGA fonts back. I never want any characters outside of Latin I. Text programs are the only reason I use FreeBSD (it sure is not for the pathetic X.org). How can anyone work with the horrible text fonts which I suspect are some horrible raster fonts which reset video every time I switch virtual terms? -- Lars Eighner stableuser at larseighner.com
> Is there anyway to get the VGA fonts back. I never want any characters outside of Latin I. > > Text programs are the only reason I use FreeBSDHave you tried putting "kern.vty=sc" to /boot/loader.conf to make kernel use traditional VGA text mode (syscons driver) and good old VGA fonts?
Follow the "Font Support" section of https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons for another option. More info on the terminus font here: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ - Eric On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:39 PM Lars Eighner <stableuser at larseighner.com> wrote:> What is with the horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable? I have tried them > all and they are each more hiddeous than the other. > > Is there anyway to get the VGA fonts back. I never want any characters > outside of Latin I. > > Text programs are the only reason I use FreeBSD (it sure is not for the > pathetic X.org). How can anyone work with the horrible text fonts which I > suspect are some horrible raster fonts which reset video every time I > switch virtual terms? > > > > -- > Lars Eighner > stableuser at larseighner.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:38:33 +0100, Lars Eighner <stableuser at larseighner.com> wrote:> What is with the horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable? I have tried > them all and they are each more hiddeous than the other. > > Is there anyway to get the VGA fonts back. I never want any characters > outside of Latin I. > > Text programs are the only reason I use FreeBSD (it sure is not for the > pathetic X.org). How can anyone work with the horrible text fonts which > I suspect are some horrible raster fonts which reset video every time I > switch virtual terms? > > >From 'man vt': hw.vga.textmode Set to 1 to use virtual terminals in text mode instead of graphics mode. Features that require graphics mode, like loadable fonts, will be disabled. You can set this in /boot/loader.conf. Regards, Ronald.