Re: feedback needed on fonts behavior in consoles on intel platform

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

By default most distros use the builtin bios text mode for console on 
intel architecture, to achieve what you need, you should use the 
framebuffer driver for that, what you need on most of distros is to 
add some kernel parameters in boot time, I use these ones:

vga=0x314 video=vesa:ywrap

Check framebuffer HOWTO for more details.

behdad



On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:

> Hey,
> I would like to know if you folks have the same behavior as I do.
> Under a PowerPC architecture, it is possible to set different fonts for
> different virtual terminals, which is supposed to be the correct
> behavior.
> On intel platforms I tested on however, a change of fonts on one virtual
> terminal seems to affect all others, plus a switch to and from X
> restaure the font that was there before X started.
> I would like a confirmation of this before I go on and simply add a
> feature in Akka that palliates what seems to be a Linux/XFree86 bug (?).
> 
> Regards,
> Chahine
> 
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Behdad
2 Bahman 1380, 2002 Jan 22

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