Possible to change resolution of tty1-6? laptop's non-GUI TTYs?

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This is the linux console virtual terminal.

Thanks for that! From that I’ve now found both “virtual console” and “virtual terminal” appear to mean this; that is: not the terminal emulation in a GUI (eg: rxvt) but one of Linux’s 6 non-GUI TTYs: Virtual console - Wikipedia (interesting page on FreeBSD’s version of this also using th term “virtual console”)

You can set some options, the first one you probably want to look at is console.font

Perfect thanks again! That lead me to the solution: run setfont against /etc/kbd/consolefonts basenames. Found that via more pointed searches of other forum posts with your help. Here’s the quick “fix it now” solution: was ter-912n.psf.gz or ter-d18n.psf.gz made the screen usable again (can’t recall which):

# list values that are a valid arg to the _next_ command
$ find -L /etc/kbd/consolefonts -type f -name '*.gz' -printf '%P\n' | sort
# nixos-robust alternative to listing an actual file
# https://discourse.nixos.org/t/need-help-setting-tty-font/16295/9

$ sudo setfont "$font_gz"
# example
$ sudo setfont ter-d18n.psf.gz

and of course that came from a bunch of much more nix-robust solutions, as well as long-term (ie: save in your config) solutions:

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