Bug 22383 – consolechars -d only works from console

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Bug 22383 - consolechars -d only works from console

Summary:	consolechars -d only works from console

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	console-tools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-12-16 07:25 EST by Pekka Savola
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-12-16 07:25:15 EST
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-12-16 07:25:12 EST

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 09:13:36 EST

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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