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GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

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HiDPI font , vconsole.conf font ignored, using nvidia

Hello

I am trying to set my font for the virtual vonsole.
So here is my vconsole.conf:

# /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=fr-latin1
FONT=sun12x22

But the font has not effect ( keymap works ) while :

setfont sun12x22

works perfectly.

I've seen here :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151859
That if i use KMS i should add my graphic driver in mkinitpcio.conf, but since i'm using nvidia, i do not think it is necessary. I've add it anyway without any changes.
I've also add systemd and sd-vconsole, without any change.
Here is my current mkinitpcio.conf:

MODULES="nvidia"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck systemd sd-vconsole"

Any help apreciated

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: HiDPI font , vconsole.conf font ignored, using nvidia

You need an open graphics stack to get early KMS support so you would have to switch to Nouveau.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start

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LeonardK

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Re: HiDPI font , vconsole.conf font ignored, using nvidia

You can also try using a different framebuffer I guess:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

GloW_on_dub

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Re: HiDPI font , vconsole.conf font ignored, using nvidia

Thanks for suggestion, i may just put the setfont command in my bash_profile.

LeonardK

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Re: HiDPI font , vconsole.conf font ignored, using nvidia

Probably the most nasty workaround but it may work ^^