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Bug#563035: console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14



Package: console-setup
Version: 1.50
Severity: normal

When I reconfigure console-setup to choose the Fixed font in size 14
(see debconf information below) and reboot the machine, the bottom
2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals.

This is a problem similar to question 1.2 from

  /usr/share/doc/console-setup/FAQ.gz

but I do not change the font size.

Fixed14 looks the same as Fixed16. So, I wonder whether the font size
is really changed.

Note: I use gdm.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.30-2     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
ii  keyboard-configuration        1.50       system-wide keyboard preferences
ii  xkb-data                      1.7-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  kbd                           1.15.1-2   Linux console font and keytable ut

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
  console-setup/variant: United Kingdom
* 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: pc105
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 14
  console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/charmap: ISO-8859-1
  console-setup/layoutcode: gb
* console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
* console-setup/fontsize-text47: 14
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/charmap47: ISO-8859-1
  console-setup/layout: United Kingdom
  console-setup/variantcode:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
  console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
  console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) 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: Fixed



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