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Re: Default console text mode to 80x40



On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 01:43:03PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> I still wonder what the result would be on small, high-DPI monitors
> (like small laptop ones).
> 
> If the system comes up wih too big fonts, you can change it.
> If it comes up to too small fonts, you can't because you can't read
> what you type.

Well, in VGA text mode it's still plenty big, and a lot more usable than
80x25:

	http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/IMG_20191130_143848.jpg

Do you mean with VESA / graphical console?  I don't think it will affect
that.  I had a look at the list of fonts in wsfont.c, and it looks like the
two existing fonts we have would be selected before the one I added
(FONT_BOLD8x16, FONT_BOLD16x32).  So nothing should change there.  It will
only affect VGA text mode.

Andrew


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