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

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:31:17AM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> 
> 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

>  2. Incompatible with (radeonfb) framebuffer console

An user of the console-terminus reported to me about the same problem
and he also used radeonfb.  It seams that radeonfb supports only fonts
with 8-pixels width font matrix (like the text-mode console).

Try sizes 14 or 16 and if necessary switch the console to lower
resolution mode.

>     If so, please add a HUGE BOLD warning on it.

OK.

Anton Zinoviev