Re: invisible console

[Juha Tuuna <juha.tuuna@iki.fi>]

On 30.4.2010 13:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in
> /etc/default/console-setup I have
> 
> FONTFACE="VGA"
> FONTSIZE="16"
> 
> This used to work.
> ...

I'm running Debian Stable (kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64) with a framebuffer console
working ok with the following settings:

/etc/default/console-setup does not exist

in /etc/console-tools/config I have:
BLANK_TIME=30
BLANK_DPMS=off
POWERDOWN_TIME=30
SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16
SCREEN_FONT_vc2=lat0-sun16
SCREEN_FONT_vc3=lat0-sun16
SCREEN_FONT_vc4=lat0-sun16
SCREEN_FONT_vc5=lat0-sun16
SCREEN_FONT_vc6=lat0-sun16

and in /boot/grub/menu.lst I have:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=XXX
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

where XXX is something from:
(0x0312 would give me 640x480 with 24 bits per pixel)

% sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
  <snip>
  Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  <snip>
  Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown


This configuration has been working for me for years with practically any
2.6.x kernel in Debian and Ubuntu.

For more fonts see /usr/share/consolefonts

-- 
Juha Tuuna