How do I increase the terminal font size?

Question

I have a Raspberry pi B, using Debian, just rigged up with a 3.5 inch TFT-LCD monitor via VGA. The text size in command line mode is too small to read, so I would like to increase its size, and one method says "edit /boot/config.txt". However the command ls /boot shows no config.txt -- the only .txt file is cmdline.txt.

Another method ref: http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/11/cheap-miniature-lcd-screen which says use sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup doesn't seem to make any difference.

Have I done something wrong? I'd appreciate any help in progressing forward from here.

Answer 1

I have this problem, too, when I'm using my huge TV. Try this:

setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz

To see a list of available fonts: ls /usr/share/consolefonts/

The numbers at the end indicate width and height (though not always that exact!)

No idea why config.txt is missing. However, you can use this:

https://raw.github.com/Evilpaul/RPi-config/master/config.txt

as a template for creating a new one.

My guess would be that a) it's been deleted accidentally or b) has been corrupted in some way in the file system and has disappeared. (a is more likely)