is it normal that the uefi framebuffer console is slower than a remote login using a 300 baud acoustically-coupled modem?

while scrolling?

while doing anything

like, the OI text installer redrawing the screen takes 20s (10s to clear it, another 10s to redraw it)

admittedly, this is a very low-end system from 2015, but still.

Woodstock loader or kernel?

Woodstock: It probably have to do with the video card more than anything, since I believe it uses VESA text modes.

You can try doing a "framebuffer set 640x480x16" or similar - it can list all the valid modes.

You can also do "ls boot/loader/fonts" in the loader and then "loadfont" of a smaller font if you change the resolution.

jhj UEFI only does support 32-bit modes. but smaller resolutions can help.

Ah, I'm still on a BIOS loader, since I installed ages ago.

(I always change the font anyway, to Gallant, because anything else looks wrong.)

:)

Speaking of fonts, is there any way to make the console font bold?

as default bold? gallant does not have bold, but terminus does have bold, so you can see result while reading manuals for example

we do not calculate glyphs, we only use what is provided via font

I was hoping for bold in general, everything bold, which seems to be what Solaris does.

Is that a difference in their font?

i.imgur.com/wgoN7JP.png has Solaris on the right.

they default to gallant and bright foreground

Ah. I just find it much easier to read. I don't use the console too often really.

so you can try tput bold

or set tem._fg_color

oops, tem.fg_color

I can not use white on black myself, I'm only using black on white.

too much burden on eyes even with bright white as fg.

(if font does not provide bold component, then bold means bright color in tem)

I have never seen an environment where bold in a text terminal was both a bold weight, and also a good idea

I feel like I must have spent career-years turning off bold and beeping in terminals both real and virtual