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

[Anton Zinoviev]

reopen 352911
clone 352911 -1
retitle -1 consolechars can load only fonts with 8-pixels width glyph matrix
reassign -1 console-tools
thanks

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:56:21PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> 
> I ran this command line
> 
>     consolechars -v --tty=/dev/tty4 -f $FONTFILE

Ah, I forgot about consolechars...  It can work only with 8-pixel wide
fonts (so I have to do another update in the Debconf templates).

Install kbd instead of console-tools and try again.  Setfont should
work.

> OK, what now? More tests? Reassign this bug to the console-tools
> package?

I reassigned a clone of the bug to console-tools.  I hope with kbd
instead of console-tools the situation will be much different.

> > On my computer if I use matroxfb then all font sizes work.  However if
> > I use vga16fb instead of matroxfb then, all fonts load with no error
> > messages but only with sizes 14, 16 and 32x16 the display is
> > correct.
> 
> That is different from here: Here, the userspace part of loading the
> font fails, probably long before any framebuffer device driver has
> anything to do with it.

Indeed.

Anton Zinoviev