Re: console font

Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 29 mars 2026 20:05:28 +0300, a ecrit:
> su 29.3.2026 klo 19.35 Samuel Thibault ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> >
> > Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 29 mars 2026 19:14:46 +0300, a ecrit:
> > > However, I regularly stare at the console to check for problems during
> > > bootop. The key problem is that when the font is loaded, the console
> > > display is reset just as I'm trying to keep track of what init scripts
> > > are printing.
> >
> > So the problem is actually not that the console loads a font, but that
> > it does not keep the content of the screen (and preventing it from
> > loading a font wouldn't change at all that issue).
> >
> > It could be made to do that.
> 
> Why wouldn't preventing it from changing the font help? It would.

Loading a font in the VGA card does *not* change the content of the
screen.

Clearing the VGA text buffer content does, the console is currently
doing exactly that, it's really not related to font loading at all.

Samuel