changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

yes, it was.  i think our emails crossed in transit, i figured this out a
couple hours ago too.  thanks thoug for looking.

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