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

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann]

Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> writes:

> 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).

I have my doubts about the 8-pixel theory as the "SUN12x22" font built
into the kernel works just fine with radeonfb.

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

OK, I'll try a few different sizes.

Gruß,

Uli