[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#352911: setupcon: Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.3
Severity: important


Running setupcon only affects the keyboard, not the console font.
The console is using the radeonfb framebuffer.

# setupcon
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
# 

At the very least, these error messages are not helpful in determining
the problem.

Possible causes:

 1. compressed files
    strace talks about .gz compressed terminus font files, which 
    suggests that possibly setupcon would work if they were
    uncompressed. I have not done any experiments with that yet.

 2. Incompatible with (radeonfb) framebuffer console
    If so, please add a HUGE BOLD warning on it.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-suspend2-2.2-rc15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.16-3     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-60 Linux console and font utilities

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: Germany
  console-setup/modelcode: pc102
* console-setup/fontsize: 28x14
  console-setup/layoutcode: de
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
  console-setup/codeset: Uni3
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: Terminus
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
* console-setup/layout: Germany
  console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: Generic 102-key (Intl) PC