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console-setup package

  1. Bug #133072
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 133072

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote :

Current situation in Natty:

1) Booting normally in X and switching to vt1:
Font and charmap is not applied.

2) Booting in X *without splash* and switching to vt1:
Font is applied (e.g. Terminus), but not charmap, so I still can't see e.g. Greek.

3) Booting in recovery mode (vmlinuz single):
Everything works fine.

I tried troubleshooting it a bit, by putting a wrapper script around /bin/setfont. I saw that "setfont -C /dev/ttyX /etc/console-setup/Uni2-Terminus16.psf" is actually called for tty[1-6] on boot, and also *twice* for each tty, but something prevents them from actually taking effect.

Of course running that command after boot correctly sets the font/charmap.