On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:44:58PM +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote:
> Further investigation reveals that this restting appears to occur with
> the message "Setting default font lat0-sun16". This appears to be
> called from an initialisation script "keytable" which in turn eventually
> calls "consolechars". This seems to set the console font and do what I
> want, but in the initialisation script, it is using a variable to get
> the font name. Now I am stuck trying to find where this variable is set...
which distro is this? I'm used to seeing that stuff happen in
rc.sysinit.
>
> I looked at the frame buffer stuff and it appeared to allow you to put
> the console into a graphics mode rather than text mode, which is not
> quite what I want at this stage. That, my lack of knowledge/confidence
> and some frustration were the main reasons behind my rather declamatory
> statement about not wanting to compile the kernel (yet anyway).
I agree with previous posters that framebuffer is the way to go. You
just need something like "vga=791" in your lilo.conf if you're using a
stock mandrake kernel of relatively recent vintage.
That said I think the quickest way to find your setting is to do
something like:
find /etc -type f -exec grep -iln "lat0-sun16" {} \;
which will search etc for the file containing your font setting. I think
the program that sets your system font is /sbin/setsysfont. quick
grepping of my init scripts suggests that the file you're looking for is
/etc/sysconfig/i18n - which seems like a mildly odd place to put it, so
don't flame me if I'm wrong. (Mandrake 8.2 or cooker initscripts, I
can't remember which any more).
HTH and doesn't break your system :)
James.
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