/sbin/setsysfont on startup

[Sergey]

Can not get how the KERNEL is related to system fonts being set to TTYs on 
start up???

----- Original Message -----
From: James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: /sbin/setsysfont on startup
Date: Thursday 08 December 2005 18:21

>Sergey wrote:
>> /sbin/setsysfont which is called by /etc/rc.sysinit sets the specified
>> font and acm parameters on current terminal only, which is usually tty1.
>> It is advisable to alter the script so that it would change the font on
>> all ttys that might be used. Commonly those are tty1-tty6 (alt-F1-F6).
>>
>> It is very important for locales, since many international users use font
>> display maps, such as koi2alt for example.
>
>Which kernel are you running? This seems to be related to
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130024 and
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/14/127 , which was fixed (upstream, at
>least) by at least kernel 2.6.13, but would be unlikely to have been in
>the lauch Fedora kernel.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>James.
>
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