Bug 22383 - consolechars -d only works from console
Summary: consolechars -d only works from console
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: console-tools
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-16 12:25 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-12-16 12:25:15 UTC
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-12-16 12:25:12 UTC
If you try to set the default console fonts on SSH or from local xterm, you
get:

# consolechars -d
set_kernel_font: Invalid argument

On console this seems to work fine.  /etc/sysconfig/i18n:
---
LANG="en_US"
---

This happens with RHL 6.2 too, at least.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-01-17 14:13:36 UTC
This is intentional - setting different characters from anything but the console
doesn't make sense.
Also, adding this would be impossible - You can't use ioctl() on devices that
are used by someone else.


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