I sent this to the redhat-install-list but got no replies.  Can someone here answer it?
 
I have three machines that I have installed REDHAT 9.0.
Each install had in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

All machines boot to runlevel 3

Two of the machines work just fine.  However the third machine boots to
garbled text (screen filled totally with unusual characters).  Even though I
cannot read the screen, I can login and startx.  X looks just fine and I can
go to a terminal and text looks just fine there also.

I have searched the internet to try to find a solution to this problem but
was not able to locate the specific issue.  I suspected it might be a video
card issue since the machine has a different video card in it.  But reading
other messages about garbled text lead me to believe it was a FONT problem.

So I changed  SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
to SYSFONT="fixed"  just to see if it would make any difference.

It worked!  Text looks good now, but I do get a failure on boot when it
try's to set DEFAULT FONT.  Says cannot find font "fixed".

Since it works, this does not appear to be a problem, but what other
fonts could I put in the i18n file that would work?

Thanks,
   Tom

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