Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!nntp.comgw.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: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:38:52 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: To protect and to server
Sender: 9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A
Message-ID: <vcufdb$2om37$1@paganini.bofh.team>
References: <vcn69v$1u780$1@paganini.bofh.team> <lldrv3Fm0feU1@mid.individual.net>
Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:38:52 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2906215"; posting-host="auB55DPHDjPEIUuMXlkh1Q.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: 2346
Lines: 39

Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> wrote:
> Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote
> 	in <vcn69v$1u780$1@paganini.bofh.team>:
> # 
> # Hello, all.
> # 
> # 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 ?
> 
> I have in /etc/rc.conf this for the gallant font:
> 
> allscreens_flags="-f gallant"

Than you, Jens.

> That's the Sun Microsystems console font, simply unsurpassed,
> for those who remember. Sigh...

Yes, it is beautiful.  It is hard to make a low-res raster font
avec serif and so well-shaped.  And this font is not in the old-shool
font-pack:

    <https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/>
    (but the font index does not show all the fonts...)

How can one setup the TTYs with a high-DPI monitor?  In Windows, I
simply set the size for my raster fonts to a multiple of the native
size, to have pixel doubling, tripling, or quadrupling.  That way,
the fonts are rendered perfecly sharp.  Is anything similar possible
in FreeBSD?

P.S. Why did you set the `#' character to prepend quoted lines?