Bug#556882: Please enable console-setup to leave kernel fonts alone
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.47
Severity: normal
In April 2009 I emailed debian-boot@lists.debian.org to request that
console-setup allow kernel fonts to be used without being replaced by
software fonts. Colin Watson responded, providing a fix: setting
FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to an empty string would prevent 'console-setup'
from loading software fonts, while it would still configure the keyboard
correctly.
Updating Sid recently brought in 'console-setup' v1.47. On my next
reboot, the 10x18 kernel font was replaced by a software font. I
suspected that the new 'console-setup' had overwritten my settings in
'/etc/default/console-setup', since such a bug had occured when these
changes were first introduced in April. However, I see no settings that
have been overwritten. The only possible difference I can see is that I
now have
FONTFACE=""
FONTSIZE=""
where I originally thought I had
FONTFACE=
FONTSIZE=
This should make no difference, however. The only other oddity I can
see in '/etc/default/console-setup' is unrelated to fonts: I previously
had
XKBMODEL="pc104"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
in '/etc/default/console-setup', but these settings have moved to
'/etc/default/keyboard' (because of the new 'keyboard-configuration' package)
with the value of XKBMODEL lost:
XKBMODEL=""
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
The settings don't explain the change in behavior of 'console-setup'
regarding kernel fonts, so there must have been a change in its code.
I would like to second Josh Triplett's request to have the April-
November behavior restored, with 'console-setup' allowing kernel fonts
to be used without being overwritten by software fonts!
Thanks,
Dave W.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc7-0git091113.desktop.uvesafb (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.28-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii keyboard-configuration 1.47 system-wide keyboard preferences
ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information:
console-setup/variant: USA
console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
console-setup/compose: No compose key
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
console-setup/other:
console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/modelcode: pc104
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/fontsize:
console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/layoutcode: us
console-setup/fontface47: Do not change the boot/kernel font
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16
console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
debian-installer/console-setup/title:
console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
console-setup/layout: USA
console-setup/variantcode:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
console-setup/model: Generic 104-key PC
console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16
console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/toggle: No toggling
console-setup/fontface: Do not change the boot/kernel font
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