Please respond to list. Reply and followups redirected. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:21:11AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > There are about 30 Console lines and yes I think it is > running in SVGATEXT mode.
That's SVGATextMode -- it's the name of a program. What's the output
of:
dpkg -s svgatextmode | head -12
> I cannot find the file
> /etc/TextConfig in my system ....
> I cannot fint setfont either. I think my system has
> gone wahkky.
I think you don't have these programs installed. That's not wacky,
that's deprived <g>
dpkg -s kbd-compat
You can also set the system VGA mode at boot time by providing an
svga=XX option in your /etc/lilo.conf, eg:
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda3
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=6 # *****here****
delay=20
timeout=300
prompt
image=/vmlinuz
label = Linux
read-only
> I would like to know the following. What type fonts
> are console fonts? Are they *.BDF. *.psf, or *.pcf? Is
They're *.psf files, though I don't know quite what that is.
> it possible to convert a regular font to a console
> font? How do I set the font of an xterm console?
There are a number of font conversion tools available, several on my
system. This topic is also discussed in several of the O'Reilly X
Window System volumes -- specifically the User and Admin guides.
> Thanks for the reply. Your the only one who did :)
De nada.
> -Dinesh
>
> --- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:38:17PM -0700, Dinesh
> > Nadarajah wrote:
> > > After I installed Debian 2.2 (potato), I found
> > that
> > > the system was using VGA type fonts instead of the
> > > standard terminal fonts (not X windows). How can I
> > get
> > > rid of this? There are more than 25 lines on the
> > > screen and some applications (like man) scroll
> > only
> > > the last 25 (very annoying).
> >
> > How many console lines do you have? Are you running
> > SVGATextMode (note
> > the casing of that)? Check the contents of
> > /etc/TextConfig,
> > particularly of the the section around
> >
> > Option "LoadFont"
> >
> > ...which describes console fonts.
> >
> > You may try running /usr/bin/setfont with various
> > fonts under
> > /usr/share/consolefonts. I find best results with
> > the lat1u-16 series
> > myself.
> >
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