Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:35:22PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> That's wrong too, since it'd still load a default font. >> >> I had to uninstall this defective package because it insisted >> on loading a font at boot. That really screwed me up, as I was >> using a kernel-supplied framebuffer font that wasn't available. >> > > You have four options: > > 1. use the font face "VGA16" of console-setup which is similar to the > kernel font. > > 2. Use a line "FONT=/usr/share/consolefonts/somefont" in > /etc/default/console-setup in order to load a non-console-setup > font. > > 3. Remove/deactivate /etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup and leave only > S06keyboard-setup > > 4. Remove console-setup entirely > > >> An 8-pixel-wide font is no good for me. I'm sure other people >> have nice 9x16 VGA ROM fonts they'd like to keep. (can you even >> handle a 9-pixel-wide VGA font correctly?) >> > > If you use a framebuffer, you don't have a 9x16 font. If framebuffer > is not used, then 9x16 fonts are handled correctly. > > >> In any case, DO NOT LOAD A FONT BY DEFAULT!!!! >> > >
> While it would be useful to have a configuration option to tell > console-setup not to load a font (and maybe I will implement this in > some future version), I doubt that most people need such a feature. > > >> The most serious problem is in unicode_start, which should just issue >> the command to put the console in UTF-8 mode without touching the >> console font. >> > > The problem is putting the console in UTF-8 mode means at least ensuring that the console font MAP is a UTF-8 one. The only reliable method of knowing this (on all archs) is to set it yourself, hence unicode_start setting the font. (Suggestions as to a better method accepted). > I agree here with you at 100%. Both "kbd" and "console-tools" have a > version of unicode_start and any change in this utility has to be > coordinated between the two packages. > > Anton Zinoviev > > > This should be temporary. console-tools is deprecated: upstream development is dead. I will remove it from Debian later this year (after mid-June, when I have time) once I've checked it for patches and other functionality that should be added to kbd (or something else) for lenny. > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-kbd-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kbd-devel > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
