From: Pete Appleton <grub2-pma@catcity.dyndns.org>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:44:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5112DCBA.2070003@catcity.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADO5RbjxQpxaJStfYva47UP3RFWvS0+V-P-T7GzWscgfT4RRUw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Please excuse the personal reply, which is purely an attempt to help,
and off-list because I think the questions you're asking aren't
appropriate for the development mailing list but are really user
questions. I'd like to apply the following disclaimers and then supply
the knowledge I posess:
1. I am not affiliated with, or a developer for, GRUB2 in any sense -
just somebody who happens to subscribe to the grub-devel mailing list
2. I don't use Ubuntu regularly, but do have a couple of machines
running v12.04 that I've used as a testbed
3. I'm quite drunk at the moment
That said, this email is really offered in "good faith" because I've
read the Vinux site and respect what you're doing, and would like to
help if possible!!
The potentially useful information follows:
1. /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz is owned by the package
"xfonts-unifont".
2. Installing this package did not allow the command 'grub-mkfont -s24
-o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz' to succeed;
this still failed with the error you reported. I believe that this is
because the PCF font in xfonts-unicode is a bitmap font (i.e. fixed
size), whereas you need a vector flavour to be able to generate the GRUB
version
You may wish to try the following (I emphasize that I have not done so,
and am purely guessing as to whether it might help):
1. sudo apt-get install ttf-unifont
2. sudo grub-mkfont -s24 -o /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf ;#Works On My Machine
Theoretically, this will install the TTF version of GNU unifont and
generate a "size 24" GRUB fontfile in the correct location - exactly
what the GRUB size means is not documented, I'm afraid.
If this is of any help, it would be appreciated if you'd let me know
that it was useful; if not, then I apologise for wasting your time.
Regards,
Pete Appleton [who is a professional programmer, FWIW]
On 06/02/13 15:27, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> grub-mkfont -s 24 -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-05 4:35 Console Resolution with GRUB2 D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-05 5:32 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-05 7:36 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05 15:10 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-05 15:18 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06 4:02 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06 5:28 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-06 15:27 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06 22:44 ` Pete Appleton [this message]
2013-02-07 21:49 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-21 21:59 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-21 22:19 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-02-28 23:44 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-01 0:13 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-03-01 1:31 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-01 1:48 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-03-01 2:30 ` Gerard Butler
2013-03-01 2:42 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-03-01 2:42 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-03-01 18:25 ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-01 18:47 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02 0:43 ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-02 4:03 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-05 6:47 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05 7:29 ` David J. J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-05 7:32 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05 7:35 ` Chris Murphy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-02 4:07 Gerard Butler
2013-03-02 6:08 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02 6:20 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02 6:41 ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-02 6:56 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02 8:14 ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-06 20:00 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-07 9:38 ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-02 8:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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