Bug#556882: Please enable console-setup to leave kernel fonts alone

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: console-setup Version: 1.47 Severity: normal In April 2009 I emailed debian-boot@lists.debian.org to request that console-setup allow kernel fonts to be used without being replaced by software fonts. Colin Watson responded, providing a fix: setting FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to an empty str

Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

2009-05-08 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: console-setup Version: 1.34 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.3 My last upgrade of 'console-setup' caused /etc/default/console-setup to be overwritten without warning. The contents of the file before being overwritten were : # A configuration file for setupcon # Cha

Re: console-setup: is it possible to use kernel fonts instead of something loaded by console-setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I've committed a change to console-setup to let you leave FONTFACE, FONTSIZE, and FONT all unset to achieve this effect: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/console-setup/setupcon?r1=57747&r2=58421&pathrev=58421&diff_format=u Please test. Applied the patch, and edited /etc/defa

console-setup: is it possible to use kernel fonts instead of something loaded by console-setup?

2009-04-18 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I recently upgraded 'xorg' to 7.4 in Sid, and that brought in the new dependency on 'console-setup'. Previously, my virtual terminals' fonts were configured with 'console-tools'. Through a bizarre series circumstances and experiments, I found that the kernel font "10x18" gave me the best comp

Bug#354424: Install report: sarge 3.1r1a

2006-02-25 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: installation-reports Version: 3.1r1a INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: downloaded on 25-02-2006 from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/iso-cd/ debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso 24-Dec-2005 03:17 108M uname -a: Linux P4BOX 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46: