Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/23/06, Stefan Wimmer <swimmer@××××××.nl> wrote:
> * Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> [2006-09-23 10:01] :
> >  I was unclear as to whether your suggestion works without the
> >  vesafb stuff. It seemed that it might so I tried it but got this
> >  error:
>
> ... So am I - but I see no reason why it shouldn't work ... the
> resolution should not be a problem and I use this on 2 systems: 1
> radeonfb and the other vesafb ...
>
> >
> >  lightning ~ # vi /etc/conf.d/consolefont
> >  lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
> >   * Caching service dependencies ...
> >     [ ok ]
> >   * WARNING:  you are stopping a boot service.
> >   * Setting user font ...
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >  putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> >   * Failed to set user font                             [ !! ]
> >  lightning ~ #
> >
> >  Google did not find any other pages with this error statement.
> >
> >  - Mark
>
> Hmmm, no idea what could cause this ... you have terminus-font
> installed do you? Can you verify whether you have the file
> /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz? Which version of baselayout and
> terminus do you use?
>
> equery b /etc/init.d/consolefont
> [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/consolefont in *... ]
> sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5 (/etc/init.d/consolefont)
>
> equery b /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz
> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz in *... ]
> media-fonts/terminus-font-4.20 (/usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz)
>
> Couldn't think of anything else - sorry :-/
>
> Greetz
> Stefan
>
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>

Looks OK to me. Since you were using 4.20 I installed that but get the
same results.

To be *very* clear, I have not installed the vesafb stuff yet.
Possibly it's that? Or maybe there is a kernel option other than
vesafb that needs to be enabled so that the kernel will use different
fonts?

Thanks,
Mark

lightning ~ # eix -I terminus-font
* media-fonts/terminus-font
     Available versions:  4.07 4.11 4.12 4.14 4.14-r1 4.20
     Installed:           4.20
     Homepage:            http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html
     Description:         A clean fixed font for the console and X11

lightning ~ # equery b /etc/init.d/consolefont
[ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/consolefont in *... ]
sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5 (/etc/init.d/consolefont)
lightning ~ # equery b /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz in *... ]
media-fonts/terminus-font-4.20 (/usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz)
lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
 * Setting user font ...
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
 * Failed to set user font                                                [ !! ]
lightning ~ #
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