The last thing I see before everything goes wrong is the message about setting the default system font so I presume this is what's messing things up.
I've checked my locale setting is correct (en_GB.UTF-8), but beyond that I'm stuck for what else to try. So I suppose I've got a few questions:
1) Where is the default font set, and what could I change it to which might work better.
2) Which hardware component is causing this to screw up? The grahics card? I always thought the console stuff was so common it should never really go wrong?
If it matters, the graphics card on this machine is a Trident Cyberblade i7(Rev 5b) which is happily running in X using the trident driver.
Cheers
Simon.
