Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-66 In my boot loader config file I specify "vga=3841", which causes the boot loader to set an 80x50 text mode (80 columns, 50 rows) via a video BIOS call prior to passing control to the kernel. This video mode uses the same video timings as the default 80x25 text video mode, but uses an eight-pixel-high character cell size and font, instead of the normal sixteen-pixel-high character cell size and font, resulting in twice as many text lines. (This video mode should work on all VGA-compatible video cards and monitors.) I also specify
SCREEN_FONT=lat1u-08 in my /etc/console-tools/config file to make sure that I get an eight- pixel-high font from console-tools. The boot loader sets the video mode successfully and I get 80 columns by 50 rows (and the hardware font provided by the video card) during boot. All goes well until init runs the bootup script /etc/rcS.d/S19console-screen.sh, which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh. Somewhere in the setup () function a sixteen-pixel-high font gets set, which does not appear to be latin 1, and only 25 screen lines become visible. Manually issuing consolechars -f lat1u-08 as root, after bootup completes, solves the problem; but I shouldn't have to do that. This worked under Lenny, but fails with Squeeze. Interestingly enough, I tried manually editing /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh to exit immediately, but found that the setup script from the console-setup package (/etc/init.d/console-setup) also sets a 16-pixel-high font. I had to essentially disable both startup scripts and put a /usr/bin/consolechars -f lat1u-08 command in one of them to get the font style and size that I want. That shouldn't be necessary. I will open a similar bug report against the console-setup package and cross reference the two bug reports once they are both open and I know both bug numbers. This is not an upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze: this was an installation of Squeeze from scratch using the Lenny installer, which was the latest installer available at the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
