From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: console fonts
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:12:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140920031223.GC24055@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140920021651.GA12492@vega.jjdev.com>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:16:52PM -0400, John de la Garza wrote:
> When I boot up I see the 12x22 fonts for a while then it switches to
> the tiny fonts default font about half way throught the boot process.
>
> My goal is to have the system running with the 12x22 fonts. I do not
> plan to run X. Does anyone know how why it swtiches away from my
> custom fonts ?
>
> running:
> 3.17.0-rc-5+ on a MacBookPro with EFI and booting the kernel
> with the efi-stub from gummiboot.
>
> built with:
> Support for frame buffer devices
> EFI-based Framebuffer
> Support Framebuffer Console support
>
> Select compiled-in fonts
> Sparc console 12x22 font
the kernel EFI framebuffer driver is "odd", and probably can not support
your console fonts. I know mine can not, sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-20 2:16 console fonts John de la Garza
2014-09-20 3:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-09-20 13:47 ` John de la Garza
2014-09-20 14:41 ` Greg KH
2014-09-20 16:51 ` John de la Garza
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