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Re: Console Resolution



On 1 November 2015 at 17:49, Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Michael van Elst wrote:
>
>> In NetBSD 7.0 you get a graphical console (thanks to the new DRM support)
>> The graphical console will have the resolution of your display and use the
>> only existing console font in the kernel.
>
>
> What a completely unacceptable state of affairs! Surely there is another
> path through this conundrum short of penalizing us older (or, like me,
> vision-challenged) users with the burden of having to build a custom kernel
> simply in order to use the console.
>
> Please, if I am giving this thread an erroneous reading I would like to be
> told and set right.
>

You can change that editing /boot.cfg.

man 5 boot.cfg, go to the "menu" section.

-- 
Ottavio


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