Can not get how the KERNEL is related to system fonts being set to TTYs on start up??? ----- Original Message ----- From: James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: /sbin/setsysfont on startup Date: Thursday 08 December 2005 18:21 >Sergey wrote: >> /sbin/setsysfont which is called by /etc/rc.sysinit sets the specified >> font and acm parameters on current terminal only, which is usually tty1. >> It is advisable to alter the script so that it would change the font on >> all ttys that might be used. Commonly those are tty1-tty6 (alt-F1-F6). >> >> It is very important for locales, since many international users use font >> display maps, such as koi2alt for example. > >Which kernel are you running? This seems to be related to >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130024 and >http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/14/127 , which was fixed (upstream, at >least) by at least kernel 2.6.13, but would be unlikely to have been in >the lauch Fedora kernel. > >Hope this helps, > >James. > >-- >E-mail address: james | In poker you have to show your hand eventually if >@westexe.demon.co.uk | called. So far SCO have with great reluctance shown > > | only one card, which turned out to be "Mr Bun, The > | Baker". -- Electric Dragon on groklaw.net
