Re: Console Resolution

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost (Bob Bernstein) writes:

>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.

The other path was already mentioned, you can configure the bootloader
in /boot.cfg to disable the framebuffer console.

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