Arch Linux

kamahl

Member

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 61

vconsole.conf does not work correctly

I have a freshly installed arch with systemd. The problem is quite simple, i need the consolefont "lat2-16" to display my Czech characters correctly.
If I use

setfont lat2-16

everything works fine. But this obviously doesn't last after reboot. The solution should be putting the FONT in vconsole.conf, right?

my vconsole.conf :

KEYMAP=cz-qwertz
FONT=lat2-16
FONT_MAP=8858-2_to_uni

but the tty loads the "default" font, i.e. some other than I need. Do I have to put "setfont" to some script or what to make it work? What could possibly make this simple thing not work?

65kid

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 663

Re: vconsole.conf does not work correctly

there is a known bug that when your KMS driver is loaded, the font is reset.
As a workaround, add your video kernel module (nouveau, i915 or whatever) to MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initramfs with.

mkinitcpio -p linux

2ManyDogs

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,646

Re: vconsole.conf does not work correctly

Try adding your graphics driver to mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding your initramfs. See this thread.

(edit) 65kid is faster ...

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-10-31 19:32:35)

kamahl

Member

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 61

Re: vconsole.conf does not work correctly

Thanks guys, this worked I should have looked better to find the other thread!