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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

  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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