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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting the TTY VT font globally Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:17:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: To protect and to server Sender: 9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A Message-ID: <vcp5e5$26a2d$1@paganini.bofh.team> References: <vcn69v$1u780$1@paganini.bofh.team> <lla0jlF43aqU1@mid.individual.net> Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:17:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2304077"; posting-host="ag14srWLiVMRnqaWmLwGcQ.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (FreeBSD/14.1-RELEASE (amd64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2078 Lines: 35 Detlef Sax <sax@noart.de> wrote: >On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:20:31 -0000 (UTC), Anton Shepelev wrote: >> >> FreeBSD 14.1 RELEASE here. >> >> The virtual TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F1..F8) are provided through VT(4), >> the man page to which mentions only one tool for setting >> up the font -- vidcontrol(1), which affects only the TTY on which >> the program is invoked. >> >> How, then, can I set up the font I need (e.g. terminus-b32.fnt), >> a) as early in the boot process as possble, and >> b) for all TTYs, 1 to 8 ? >Simply put following into /etc/rc.config: >fontb32="terminus-b32.fnt" You mean in /etc/rc.conf? Unfortunately, this line has no effect, at least no the one I seek. I think this is an unrecognised variable, not check by any component. >sysrc fontb32="terminus-b32.fnt" >does the job. Yes, and I wonder why FreeBSD provides a dedicdated utility for adding lines info rc.conf. Querying those values is certainly useful, though. >man rc.conf >or >less /etc/defaults/rc.conf >for other useful settings. Thank you, but fontb32 is not mentioned in either. How did you learn about the `fontb32' setting?