I find the text on the login screen hard to read.
It starts out ok and then switches to a smaller size at the login prompt.
How do I make this text bigger ?
running fresh install of Slackware15
I'm getting old

Yes, me too.

I tried going into the grub menu to edit the kernel command-line and added fbcon=font:TER16x32, but it gets reset back half-way through bootup.

I tried booting both the boot options: with and without KMS, but neither retained the larger font I set, though they both used it during the early boot stage.

Been lurking here for a few months, after hearing rumours about Slackware 15 release candidates...

Saw this question, and said "I can answer that!", so I registered as an actual member of LQ. First post.

If you are talking about the font site in console mode, before running X, then your saviour is file /etc/rd.d/rc.local.

At the end of my file, I have added:

#Control console font at boot, added Feb 21, 2022 after upgrade to Slack 15.0
setfont ter-v24b

There are also similar fonts in larger sizes if you change the "24" to 28 or 32. Entire list of available fonts is in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts.

Edit: you can test fonts after logging in using the setfont command directly, IIRC.

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I'd assumed that as this is in the 'installation' sub-forum OP was talking about the font-size on the installer, not changing it post-install.

I assumed that being in the installation sub-forum was less of a clue than "on the login screen" and "at the login prompt", but wayne can clarify. It sounded a lot like one of the first things I wanted to fix after I upgraded to 15.0 from 14.2, so it was sort of in the "installation" phase for me.

I found clues somewhere in here, I think, as part of my lurking. From what I remember, the VGA=nnn has an effect during the first stages of the boot process when the kernel is loaded, and then once other video drivers take over and a frame buffer is set up, the font changes. Putting "setfont xxx" in rc.local means it is called pretty much at the end of the boot process once all else has run. The sequence I now see during boot is is big font, switch to small font, and finally back to the last big font for the last bit before I get the login prompt.

If it makes a difference, I use lilo to boot, and boot into console mode, not X. It's an older nvidia card (GEForce 610).

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Well, the installer also has a login screen, but you're probably right, its likely a post-install thing.

And yes, in the old days you would boot with vga=normal nomodeset, but I'm not sure how effective that is these days.

thanks dhalliwe that worked great.
The login is now easy to read.

I have exactly the same problem.

dhalliwe your solution has worked for me too. No more squinting

dhalliwe

I also am grateful for this information, and I too am getting old and don't want to put my reading glasses on to look at the screen.

I just installed Slackware15 a few days ago, and while I did play around with the different fonts within the installer, I got tired of this and just picked one, but it was not ideal, and some characters like apostrophe were translated to boxes.

I guess this is where the slackware docs refer to it (just searched): https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:localization

Note, you can run the setconsolefont script to do this also.

EDIT: I ran the script, and picked ter_722b for me.

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Thanks for the additional information, breaker. It turns out I had that link bookmarked, so I must have been in there recently.

I suspect that setconsolefont is a better way of doing it, although I haven't tried it to see what it does.