On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Iori Yoneji <fivo.11235...@gmail.com> wrote: > Konnichiwa, probably my English contain mistakes, fogive. > > I'm looking for the way to adjust text console pixel size. > > I uses SONY laptop PC, PCG-FX77Z/BP, a little bit obsolete Athlon M > machine. > It must be pleasure for me that this has SXGA+(1400x1050) color LCD, > but this make me mad. > > When I uses preinstalled windows XP, the symptom submerged. > Next, When I started to use Debian GNU/Linux, I noticed about > some annoying lines next to the pointer, and/or somewhere else in LCD. > Then I have very in trouble, but solved with vga option. > Setting and passing vga=834 option to kernel, the text console and > boot message became in 1400x1050 mode, and it didn't conflict with X. > Without conflict between X and text console in pixel, the annoying lines > dissapear. > Yes, this hack go well. I got huge space in console and X is not make me > mad. > > > Now, I want to this again in OpenBSD. > I wanted to much know about BSDs, and OpenBSD atracted me. As I thought, > X in OpenBSD has the line next to the pointer. It perhaps be sync error. > Even if I uses cool Afterstep, it make me disapointed. > > But It seems OpenBSD has no flame buffer, or vga-like option. > I tried to use wsconscfg, but not succeeded. > > I runed this in ttyC0 as root: > > wsfontload -h 8 -e ibm /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.808 > wsconscfg -dF 5 > wsconscfg -t 80x50 5 > > this was in FAQ7.5 Code. But I have found just only destroyed console at > ttyC5. Man page of wsconscfg is more confusing. > > My quetion is below: > Can I configure the text terminal size and boot message size? > How should I so? > In case not, what is workaround?
No. This is not possible in OpenBSD. You can use approach mentioned in FAQ which you already read. If it's not running then probably your card is not able to do even that (thx vendors). Not sure why do you need that during boot. Partial help for console is http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux (or for X) > > Please help me kindly. > Regards. > > Iori Yoneji, Shibuya Makuhari high school student.
