Re: Switching to my chosen console font when fb console starts.

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 22:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> I use the "Uni3-Terminus12.psf.gz" font on the console and this gives
> me 233x87 character cells on a 15" laptop screen.
> 
> When the boot process initially switches to the framebuffer console, I
> am presented with a somewhat larger font.
> 
> I later switch to my preferred font by having specified the following in
> /etc/console-tools/config:
> 
>     SCREEN_FONT=Uni3-Terminus12x6
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way I could switch to this font earlier
> in the boot process .. ideally as soon as the framebuffer console
> starts.

It's a user font, the earliest you can switch to it is when userspace
tools kick in.

Or you can port it as a kernel compiled-in font. See
drivers/video/console/font*.c

Tony


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