Re: Setting the TTY VT font globally

Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes:

FreeBSD 14.1 RELEASE here.
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The virtual TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F1..F8) are provided through VT(4),
the man page to which mentions only one tool for setting
up the font -- vidcontrol(1), which affects only the TTY on which
the program is invoked.

Actually, I think it operates on stdin, which you can specify.

How, then, can I set up the font I need (e.g. terminus-b32.fnt),
  a) as early in the boot process as possble, and
  b) for all TTYs, 1 to 8 ?

The following, done as root, perhaps in /etc/rc.local, might work:

vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv1
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv2
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv3
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv4
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv5
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv6
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv7
vidcontrol -f terminus-b32 </dev/ttyv8

(or use a shell loop).

There may well be a more elegant solution, such as some kern.vt.*
variable one can set, but I don't know it.
 -WBE