[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#421390: Bug#421390: I want the tools, not your damn font!

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:35:22PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 
> That's wrong too, since it'd still load a default font.
>
> I had to uninstall this defective package because it insisted
> on loading a font at boot. That really screwed me up, as I was
> using a kernel-supplied framebuffer font that wasn't available.

You have four options:

1. use the font face "VGA16" of console-setup which is similar to the
   kernel font.

2. Use a line "FONT=/usr/share/consolefonts/somefont" in
   /etc/default/console-setup in order to load a non-console-setup
   font.

3. Remove/deactivate /etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup and leave only
   S06keyboard-setup

4. Remove console-setup entirely

> An 8-pixel-wide font is no good for me. I'm sure other people
> have nice 9x16 VGA ROM fonts they'd like to keep. (can you even
> handle a 9-pixel-wide VGA font correctly?)

If you use a framebuffer, you don't have a 9x16 font.  If framebuffer
is not used, then 9x16 fonts are handled correctly.

> In any case, DO NOT LOAD A FONT BY DEFAULT!!!!

While it would be useful to have a configuration option to tell
console-setup not to load a font (and maybe I will implement this in
some future version), I doubt that most people need such a feature.

> The most serious problem is in unicode_start, which should just issue
> the command to put the console in UTF-8 mode without touching the
> console font.

I agree here with you at 100%.  Both "kbd" and "console-tools" have a
version of unicode_start and any change in this utility has to be
coordinated between the two packages.

Anton Zinoviev