changing console fonts?

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 06 May 2005 11:04 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:09 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:02 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > > Yea, i figured out that appending "vga=ask" to the entry in
> > > > > lilo.conf works at bootup, but I can't find any way to change this
> > > > > afterwards without rebooting.  That Wiki doesn't seem to cover it
> > > > > either.
> > > >
> > > > 	I don't remember where, but I do remember reading that you can not
> > > > change your selection without rebooting.
> > > >
> > > > 	By the way, my experience has been that the selections presented by
> > > > vga=ask, always look like crap, whereas using something like
> > > > vga=0x314 (800x600/16) or vga=0x317 (1024x768/16) look much better.
> > >
> > > Hrmmm, since you're using Debian, perhaps you know the secret.  This is
> > > for a customer bug, so i don't really care how crappy things look, i'm
> > > just trying to replicazte what they're reporting.  The thing is, with
> > > vga=ask, i'm choosing different options, and they work for a while, and
> > > then all of a sudden towards the end of the boot process, something is
> > > resetting it back to the default of 80x25.  So clearly, it is possible
> > > to change this post-boot, since Debian's initscripts are doing it, and
> > > i don't want it done.
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> >
> > I haven't experienced that, myself. None of the services being started on
> > my systems touches the console modes or fonts. Are they starting any
> > unusual services? Also, are they using a standard kernel or have they
> > rolled their own?
>
> This is on the Debian Sarge system that I installed, using Debian's 2.4.27
> kernel.  I don't see anything unusual in the process list.

i just learned something about my own system. I'm still using a 2.4.27 kernel 
on my own PC because I've been too busy/lazy to upgrade, so I started poking 
around and found something I hadn't noticed before.

It seems that there is a program in the /etc/init.d directory called 
"console-screen.sh" which can load console fonts at boot time. The 
configuration is in /etc/console-tools/config.

This might be the source of your problem.

cmr

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