reopen 352911 clone 352911 -1 retitle -1 consolechars can load only fonts with 8-pixels width glyph matrix reassign -1 console-tools thanks
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:56:21PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: > > I ran this command line > > consolechars -v --tty=/dev/tty4 -f $FONTFILE Ah, I forgot about consolechars... It can work only with 8-pixel wide fonts (so I have to do another update in the Debconf templates). Install kbd instead of console-tools and try again. Setfont should work. > OK, what now? More tests? Reassign this bug to the console-tools > package? I reassigned a clone of the bug to console-tools. I hope with kbd instead of console-tools the situation will be much different. > > On my computer if I use matroxfb then all font sizes work. However if > > I use vga16fb instead of matroxfb then, all fonts load with no error > > messages but only with sizes 14, 16 and 32x16 the display is > > correct. > > That is different from here: Here, the userspace part of loading the > font fails, probably long before any framebuffer device driver has > anything to do with it. Indeed. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
