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#1 2012-06-25 13:36:36
- Demon
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[SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Is there a way I can integrate a console font (eg. I need ter-v16b) into the linux kernel itself, or call it to the early userspace without initramfs?
Just to note, I'm not using initramfs.
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#2 2012-06-25 13:44:15
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Just set your font in consolefont section in /etc/rc.conf
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#3 2012-06-25 13:58:33
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
It's already set, but console can't "catch" that setting.
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#4 2012-06-29 07:25:41
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
This somewhat helped:
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#5 2012-06-29 09:09:00
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Did you try adding consolefont in your hooks in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as per wiki?
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#6 2012-06-29 14:20:07
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Did you try adding consolefont in your hooks in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as per wiki?
Just to note, I'm not using initramfs.
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#7 2012-06-29 14:45:54
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Sorry, didn't read properly. Anyway after the latest update I have the same problem and it seems to be a bug.
Check here for details:
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#8 2012-06-29 14:52:15
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
No no, I don't have those problems. My problem was that console font didn't get loaded early, so first few lines of output were unreadable. And this happened because I've translated initscripts' output (using Cyrillic).
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#9 2012-06-29 15:35:04
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Ooh, now i get it. But I think that's the default behaviour, (consolefont gets loaded after a few lines at boot on my pc as well) it's just the time when rc.conf is read and the consolefont gets changed. So I don't really know how to circumvent it...
Ali bih voleo da vidim kako izgleda boot na srpskom, ako moze neki screenshot
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#10 2012-06-29 16:33:25
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Хаха, наравно, нема пробема.
I'll post a link to a video, as soon as I upload it.
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#11 2012-06-29 17:20:02
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
Nice work!
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#12 2012-06-29 23:23:13
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Re: [SOLVED] Add custom console font to linux kernel
It boots even faster, I don't know what went wrong the time I took video of it.
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