ugly fonts at boot

amandus · 03-22-2015, 05:20 AM

When I have installed slackware it was very nice fonts at boot, I have setconsolefont

But now I have upgraded the kernel to 3.19.2 and the fonts are ugly it seems that something have happen. I have make oldconfig with my .config file.

Some help should be nice, I have Slackware 14.1 current with latest Nvidia driver 346.47

On the desktop everything is real nice with fonts.

Diantre · 03-22-2015, 05:30 AM

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.font and change the font name to your liking, and make sure rc.font is executable. That should set your terminal font on each boot. I'm not sure how a kernel change would affect your screen font though...

amandus · 03-22-2015, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diantre

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.font and change the font name to your liking, and make sure rc.font is executable. That should set your terminal font on each boot. I'm not sure how a kernel change would affect your screen font though...

I have it in #!/bin/sh
#
# This selects your default screen font from among the ones in
# /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts.
#
setfont -v lat2-14.psfu.gz

I have chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.font

bassmadrigal · 03-23-2015, 06:52 AM

What config did you base your kernel on? Pat has a newer 3.18.1 .config in -current under testing/. There's been some changes over the last several kernel versions and something might've changed between the -current kernel and 3.19.2 that is breaking your fonts. Basing your kernel config on a newer version that the kernel included in Slack may fix your problem.