Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Stefan Wimmer <swimmer@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:48:53
Message-Id: slrnehai4t.gfc.swimmer@swimmer.xs4all.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question by Mark Knecht
1 * Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> [2006-09-23 10:01] :
2 > I was unclear as to whether your suggestion works without the
3 > vesafb stuff. It seemed that it might so I tried it but got this
4 > error:
5
6 ... So am I - but I see no reason why it shouldn't work ... the
7 resolution should not be a problem and I use this on 2 systems: 1
8 radeonfb and the other vesafb ...
9
10 >
11 > lightning ~ # vi /etc/conf.d/consolefont
12 > lightning ~ # /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
13 > * Caching service dependencies ...
14 > [ ok ]
15 > * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
16 > * Setting user font ...
17 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
18 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
19 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
20 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
21 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
22 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
23 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
24 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
25 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
26 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
27 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
28 > * Failed to set user font [ !! ]
29 > lightning ~ #
30 >
31 > Google did not find any other pages with this error statement.
32 >
33 > - Mark
34
35 Hmmm, no idea what could cause this ... you have terminus-font
36 installed do you? Can you verify whether you have the file
37 /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz? Which version of baselayout and
38 terminus do you use?
39
40 equery b /etc/init.d/consolefont
41 [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/consolefont in *... ]
42 sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5 (/etc/init.d/consolefont)
43
44 equery b /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz
45 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz in *... ]
46 media-fonts/terminus-font-4.20 (/usr/share/consolefonts/ter-v12n.psf.gz)
47
48 Couldn't think of anything else - sorry :-/
49
50 Greetz
51 Stefan
52
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>