Bug 13626

Summary:	Console fonts on old ATI video boards
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ed McKenzie <eem12>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Ed McKenzie 2000-07-09 16:10:27 UTC

Some old VGA cards have (very) broken default fonts (esp. original Mach64 
cards); unfortunately, the kernel doesn't load a font unless fbcon is 
enabled, and RH6.2's US locale doesn't load a font by default. Proposed 
solution is to set a value for SYSFONT at the top of /sbin/setsysfont; 
default-8x16 would be a satisfactory choice, but UniCyr-sans-8x16 looks 
=much= nicer!

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-12 19:25:29 UTC

Set "SYSFONT" to something like "UniCyr-sans-8x16" or "default8x16"
in your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, and rc.sysinit will do this for you.  Doing
this by default would really screw up the folks out there with EGA or
old-style Hercules boards, and be of no use to users of serial terminals.