mark.white@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk said:
> I've not managed to make wscons do 80x50 - the problem seems to be
> loading fonts [it's still using a 16-pix high font for the 8-pix
> screens]. 

I've just found that the wscons configuration is done before the
"non-critical" filesystems are mounted. (The startup framework
changed significantly.) So it loses if "/usr/share" is on a separate
filesystem.
Something like
critical_filesystems="/usr /usr/share"
in /etc/rc.conf should help.

best regards
Matthias