changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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 figured it out.  Debian ships /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh which resets
the fonts.  I ripped that out of the boot process, and now debian isn't
screwing around with the fonts any more.

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