According to michael jones: While burning my CPU.
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> thanx to both richard & cort for your reply-s.
>
> according to Richard Adams: while burning the midnight hootchy-coils:
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> > According to michael jones: While burning my CPU.
> > >
> > > greetings.
> > > i have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS i installed Red Hat 5.2 on.
> > > when the kernel begins booting the screen font changes to something
> > > that is very "blocky". i have done the reading of all the man pages i
> > > could find that i thought were relevant, but can't quite get it. i
> > > believe
> > > 'setfont' would be the thing to use, but can't figure out the usage.
> > > could
> > > someone please help me with the proper syntax, etc.
> >
> > setfont alt-8x14 is what i use, fonts are located in
> > /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
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> the 8x14 causes a "shadowbox" effect. the output is contained to the
> middle of the screen. the art-film effect i guess. i tried a few others and
> the ones that were "8x16"-like all seemed the same as the original. i guess
> i can live with it. i was just curious why it would change so drastically. it
> never did that on my desktop, just this laptop. the font used by the bios looks
8x14 is default (normaly), so i cant see why it should press everyting into
the middle of the screen, unless you use an "option" command for video at
boottime with LILO.
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> great. i read the readme in the /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts directory and it
> really only says where each font is from or the language, like greek, etc.
>
> question: is there a resource for other fonts to try?
You read the README but missed;
Some more fonts can be found in
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Keyboards/fontpack.tgz
If all consolefonts are installed then you should have +/- 100 different
fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
Maybe the file fontpack.tgz is just the same file, i dont know.
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> > A word about setting fonts, you must set the font before you start "gpm" if
> > its used of course, otherwise your mouse will not funtion properly on the
> > new font.
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> i ran gpm -k then setfont -alt-8x16 (and altb-8x16, etc) then gpm. is
> this
> right? it seemed to work, but now when i logout of X the font is changed to
> the 8x14, squishing the output to the center of the screen again.
That would be ok for gpm, but i cant see why the screen changes back when
exiting from X, maybe that could also point to an "option" setting with
LILO. Other than that i dont know, i dont have those problems.
O another thought, if you use 'setterm' to change anything or your
enviroment has anything other than,
COLS=80
COLUMNS=80
Which is standard, then that could also produce the strange effects you
describe.
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> >
> > Merry Xmas to all, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
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> according to cort: while my 20-month old reaked havoc in the living room:
> <snip>
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> > To switch to the appropriate font on startup. Edit the file"/etc/rc.d/rc.font"
> > for a Slackware system. I'm not sure which file you should edit for Redhat, but
> > you should be able to find an existing "setfont" command in one of the rc files
> > and edit it to load your prefered font.
> >
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> i haven't found the red hat equivalant yet. i haven't dealt with what files are
> used at start-up, so i
> guess i will now. this is what can be frustrating. i have used slackware, but
> have had more
> success with red hat. i have various books on linux/unix, but things change
> quickly and can vary
> dramatically from distribution to distribution. so you have to read a lot of
> useless stuff to find
> somthing that works. and... i'll shut-up now and say thank you
>
> > For example, my "/etc/rc.d/rc.font" file contains the command "setfont t.fnt".
> > This command will be automatically ran during startup and change my console
> > font to something a little less blocky than the default.
> >
> > Cort
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Regards Richard.
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Merry Xmas to all, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
