On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:42:02 +0200 Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:26:52AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > If you are able to suggest better fonts, please do not hesitate to do > > so! > > First you need to install console-setup. Console-setup-mini supports > limited set of fonts. Then use "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" in > order to test the fontsets provided by console-setup. They are VGA, > Fixed, Terminus and TerminusBold. After dpkg-reconfigure you can use > setupcon to activate the changes and to test the result.
I did the following: # aptitude -t unstable install console-setup console-setup-mini- # aptitude purge console-setup-mini This installed console-setup/1.46 and console-terminus/4.28-2, while removing console-setup-mini. # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup I answered the questions in the following way: Keyboard model? Acer Laptop Keyboard layout? Italy AltGr key replacement? The default for the keyboard layout Compose key? Menu key Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the X server? No Encoding to use on the console? UTF-8 Character set to support? Latin1 and Latin5 Font for the console? Fixed Font size? 16 I got the following error: /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup.postinst: line 115: /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: No such file or directory Then: # setupcon /bin/setupcon: line 367: /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: No such file or directory Fonts do *not* show "toilet -f future" symbols correctly, the layout is still US (why?), and some keys (e.g.: Shift+6) do not produce the corresponding (US layout) character until other keys are pressed (I had never seen such a behavior before). OK, let's restart from scratch. # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Keyboard model? Generic 105-key (Intl) PC Now I get the following complain: | The configuration file /etc/default/console-setup specifies a keyboard | layout (us,dvorak), which is not supported by the configuration program. | | Please choose whether you want to keep it. If you choose this option, no | questions about the keyboard layout will be asked and the current | configuration will be preserved. | | Keep unsupported settings in configuration file? Why us,dvorak ? I have never asked for a dvorak layout !! I answer "No" to the question. Then: Origin of the keyboard? Italy Keyboard layout? Italy AltGr key replacement? Right Alt Compose key? No compose key Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the X server? No Encoding to use on the console? UTF-8 Character set to support? Latin1 and Latin5 Font for the console? Terminus Font size? 16 Again the following error message is shown: /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup.postinst: line 115: /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: No such file or directory Then: # setupcon /bin/setupcon: line 367: /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: No such file or directory Once again, fonts do *not* show "toilet -f future" symbols correctly, the layout is still US (why?), and some keys do not produce the corresponding (US layout) character until other keys are pressed. During the tests I also got the following kernel errors: [21794.596239] circuit:12185 conflicting memory types 90000000-95000000 uncached-minus<->write-combining [21794.596425] reserve_memtype failed 0x90000000-0x95000000, track uncached-minus, req uncached-minus I don't know if those are related, but I had never seen them before... For the record, the generated /etc/default/console-setup is as follows and it does not seem to comply with my debconf answers: # grep -v '^#' /etc/default/console-setup VERBOSE_OUTPUT=no ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP=UTF-8 CODESET=Lat15 FONTFACE=TerminusBoldVGA FONTSIZE=16 XKBMODEL=pc105 # the model of the keyboard XKBLAYOUT=us,dvorak # US QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards XKBVARIANT=intl, # the US keyboard can generate international symbols XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,grp:ctrl_shift_toggle # the right Alt selects international symbols, Control+Shift toggles between QWERTY and Dvorak Now I am more puzzled than before. I will try and perform some more tests tomorrow... The following commands got back to my initial situation: # aptitude --purge-unused install console-setup- console-setup-mini # aptitude purge console-setup [...] > > I hope this helps in pinpointing the problem. > > Yes, thank you. You're welcome. > But there is another problem to solve: Why you system > is using console-setup-mini instead of console-setup? As I told in the original bug report, it was simply pulled in as a dependency during an upgrade... However, on a more recently installed (Debian testing) box console-setup was installed instead. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
pgpcdFzUo9JA7.pgp
Description: PGP signature
