Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:43:48PM -0700, Wade Richards wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found a lot of ways to increase the console resolution so that I
> can more and smaller characters on the screen.
> 
> However, I want to do the opposite.  I've got my 80x30 VGA console output
> hooked up to a TV screen, and thanks to the low resolution of a TV,
> the result is unreadable.  I'd like to increase the font size so that
> there's only 40x20 characters on the screen, and hopefully that will be
> much easier to read.

See /usr/share/consolefonts/ for various fonts...

And /etc/console-tools/config to set defaults like:

SCREEN_FONT=iso01.f16
APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso01
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc5=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc6=user
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc7=user

You can test out fonts with "consolechars" in the console-tools package.

Some of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts are quite interesting...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>