Simon Andrews wrote:
I've just installed FC3 on an old PC (K6 500) and although X is working fine all the consoles are filled with garbage through most of the boot process and onwards.
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.
1) Where is the default font set, and what could I change it to which might work better.
/etc/sysconfig/i18n
It's the SYSFONT entry. I don't know what the alternative values you could use are.
I found a list of suitable fonts in /lib/kbd/consolefonts. I tried latin0-16 (which seemed a close approximation to the default) and that worked OK. No idea what it didn't like about latarcyrheb-sun16 though.
Try booting with the "nofb" kernel parameter and see if that helps.
Hadn't thought of that, but in this case it didn't seem to make any difference.
Thanks for the help
Simon.
