Re: Default console text mode to 80x40

On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 19:32:00 +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:

> 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.

Can we make that a boot option so that people can configure their
kernels without recompiling?  (Personally, I quite intensely dislike
text mode vga fonts at larger than 80x25).

Can we modload fonts?  (macallan@?)

-uwe