Bug#665398: systemd: should configure the width&height of the console

[Michael Biebl]

Am 27.04.2014 18:53, schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Marco d'Itri, le Sun 27 Apr 2014 14:25:06 +0200, a écrit :
>> On Mar 23, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
>>> In short, for better accessibility, systemd should provide an option to
>>> configure the width & height of the console, i.e. e.g. the equivalent of
>> Can you clarify why you believe that systemd should do this, instead of 
>> some console-specific package?
> 
> Because systemd does configure the console font already (see
> vconsole-setup), and the two are related: the console dimension gets
> updated when loading a font, and must thus be set after the console font
> is loaded.

That is not correct. We do not build the systemd-vconsole support in
Debian. We currently rely on console-setup/keyboard-setup for setting up
the console font and keyboard settings.
So this bug report is kind of moot.

> Also, vconsole-setup is meant to provide the same functionality as
> console-setup's setupcon, and it makes very little sense to keep
> console-setup only for setting the console size (which would need a
> dependency, for a start).

systemd-vconsole is a much simpler tool and doesn't handle the X11 bits
as console-setup does. So no, I wouldn't say it is meant to provide the
same functionality as console-setups's setupcon.

Michael

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