Re: Configuring wsfb using xorg.conf

[Riza Dindir <riza.dindir%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

As RVP said, the font's should be loaded, if the system is using
wscons. Also you should have wscons=YES in the /etc/rc.conf file.

Maybe you could do this on the console. I remember testing this
myself. You can use other fonts, like spleen, to check if the font is
really loaded and used.

First load the font with

wsfontload -N ibm16 -h 16 -e ibm /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.816

Then use and display the font with

wsconsctl -dw font=ibm16

This way you can make sure that you can load the font and use it on screen.

Riza

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 6:58 AM RVP <rvp%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
>
> > This is just a VirtualBox guest, booted in BIOS mode. I suspect this
> > won't work anyway, but tried it when I saw the message above. When I
> > boot the same laptop under NetBSD, it loads the fonts just fine.
> >
>
> VGA consoles should load fonts <= 8x16, I think. Try spleen-8x16.fnt
>
> -RVP
>