[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#630108: Bug#630108: Stopped propagating errors from child.

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:31:34AM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> 
> > PS: I'm using kbd instead of console-setup because the former can do a
> > smaller Terminus font than the latter.  If you can tell me how to do
> > that in console-setup, I'm happy to switch to it.
> > 
> >     $ cat ~/.console-setup
> >     # -*- sh -*-
> >     #. /etc/default/console-setup || :
> >     ## FIXME: only list tty's owned by my user.
> >     # ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
> >     # CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> >     # CODESET="Uni2"
> >     FONTFACE="Terminus"
> >     FONTSIZE="12x6"
> >     # XKBMODEL="pc105"
> >     # XKBLAYOUT="us"
> >     # XKBVARIANT=""
> >     XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
> 
> I don’t see why this wouldn’t work (and indeed, it works for me) –
> perhaps the console-setup maintainers can help you with that.

Maybe Trent means console-tools (not console-setup)?  Console-tools 
doesn't support small font sizes (12x6).

If console-setup doesn't work, then perhaps "setupcon -v" will provide 
enough debug information.

Anton Zinoviev