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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Which font should I select in the /arch/setup?

I am totally new to arch.
I have downloaded and burned the 0.7.2 iso and wanted to install it on my IBM Thinkpad T40: 1.5GHz Pentium M + ATi Radeon Mobility 7500 (the R100 GPU ).
I have read the Installation Guide a number of times but it doesn't help me with my problem.
I have searched this forum and could not find the answer either.

My problem is this:

When I run the /arch/setup and come to the step as to selecting your font, the ones I have tried don't seem to work.  Either I get no font showing whatsoever or I get all sorts of ugly background characters appearing.  I've tried it about 7 times but each time, of course, I have to retstart the computer which is tiresome.  I was hoping someone could help me out by recommending a font that I should try.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,607

Re: Which font should I select in the /arch/setup?

If you are referring to the consolefont setting in rc.conf , most users leave that empty and use the default setting.

You should only need to change the consolefont if  you need special characters that are not available in the standard font, like german or cyrillic.

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berrold

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 12

Re: Which font should I select in the /arch/setup?

LOCALE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Asia/Yakutsk"
KEYMAP="ru-utf"
CONSOLEFONT="/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/cyr-sun16.psfu.gz"
CONSOLEMAP="cp866_to_uni.trans"
USECOLOR="yes"

I've taken from http://citkit.ru/articles/211/
and
from http://calculator.gentoo.ru/localization#2.2

Just for someone who's needed this is sample for cyrillic

Last edited by berrold (2008-02-09 01:50:02)