Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Severity: normal
On a freshly installed machine without xorg, grub will silently ignore any attempt to implicitely use gfxterm by setting GRUB_GFXMODE. Installing xfonts-unicode and dpkg-reconfigure grub will fix this and enable gfxterm as expected. Adding a recommend on the font pkg would be nice, and a grub_warn in the scripts would also be nice if the user sets GRUB_GFXMODE but font is unavailable, thus disabling gfxterm. (Currently, the warning shows up if user explicitly sets GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm, but unless the user read the scripts, he wouldn't try to set this...). Maybe this only needs to be documented. I'm not quite sure why the font is required. Using grub's command line and setting things manually worked, and videotest displayed text correctly even before I installed the font. Boot continued with the requested resolution (patched via 915resolution.mod) without the "required" font. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.98+20100804-14 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: pn desktop-base <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
