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

[Alastair McKinstry]

Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
>   
The problem is putting the console in UTF-8 mode means at least ensuring
that the
console font MAP is a UTF-8 one. The only reliable method of knowing
this (on all archs)
is to set it yourself, hence unicode_start setting the font.
(Suggestions as to a better method accepted).
> 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
>
>
>   
This should be temporary. console-tools is deprecated: upstream
development is dead.
I will remove it from Debian later this year (after mid-June, when I
have time) once I've
checked it for patches and other functionality that should be added to
kbd (or something else) for
lenny.
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