On 10-Dec-98 michael jones wrote:
> greetings.
> i have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS i installed Red Hat 5.2 on.
> when the kernel begins booting the screen font changes to something
> that is very "blocky". i have done the reading of all the man pages i
> could find that i thought were relevant, but can't quite get it. i
> believe
> 'setfont' would be the thing to use, but can't figure out the usage.
> could
> someone please help me with the proper syntax, etc.
I'm not sure if Redhat support the "fontconfig" command, but if it does, you
can use it. It comes with a simple to use GUI and does all the work for you.
If you prefer to use the "setfont" command directly, "man setfont" will provide
detail information on the command. The typical syntax is:
setfont <font_file_name>
The font files are normally kept in the "/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts" directory.
Look in there to check which font is available.
To switch to the appropriate font on startup. Edit the file "/etc/rc.d/rc.font"
for a Slackware system. I'm not sure which file you should edit for Redhat, but
you should be able to find an existing "setfont" command in one of the rc files
and edit it to load your prefered font.
For example, my "/etc/rc.d/rc.font" file contains the command "setfont t.fnt".
This command will be automatically ran during startup and change my console
font to something a little less blocky than the default.
Cort
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