Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

[Robert William Hutton <rwh@helms-deep.cable.nu>]

Chris wrote:
> I've noticed that during (sid) startup the font appears to be changed
> - both on my desktop box and on the laptop. On the desktop box this is
> OK - I get to see more of the boot messages scrolling past before GDM
> starts.
>
> But - on the laptop - at the point this switches in - all screens
> suddenly turn off (Fujitsu Siemens). I get the same with or without an
> external monitor - Fn-10 doesn't do any screen switching, or
> anything. I have to hard reset. After a couple of resets it all
> suddenly seems to work.

Have a look in /etc/console-tools/config.  If there is a line like the 
following:

# Set the following - more euro-friendly default than kernel font.
SCREEN_FONT=latcyrheb=sun16.psf

comment out the SCREEN_FONT line.

Just an idea, as I remember this switching my font from the vga=9 which 
I had specified in my lilo.conf.  Not sure if this'll be your prob as it 
seems to be commented out by default these days.

Cheers,

Rob.