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| author | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2012-09-25 22:22:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-10-03 15:42:19 +0200 |
| commit | f51356b4628822a58ddecd217b0e5e079e39499e (patch) | |
| tree | 71710d76e955e9c0e544a24f2c718b0424605e03 /man | |
| parent | ffc227c9568eb0a12dc750761d1e5d68ea125aad (diff) | |
vconsole: default to the kernel compiled-in font
No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in
vconsole.conf.
The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users
of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these
character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not
any longer.
Rationale:
* it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different
from adding FONT="";
* the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the
upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should
admittedly be fixed in the font itself);
* the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to
use that unless anything else is specified;
* This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and
* We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the
compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason).
[0]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel.bdf>
[1]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/latarcyrheb.bdf>
[2]: <http://i.imgur.com/J2tM4.jpg>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/vconsole.conf.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/vconsole.conf.xml b/man/vconsole.conf.xml index e23a980232..258c82bc62 100644 --- a/man/vconsole.conf.xml +++ b/man/vconsole.conf.xml @@ -112,9 +112,7 @@ <listitem><para>Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode - font map. <varname>FONT=</varname> - defaults to - <literal>latarcyrheb-sun16</literal>.</para></listitem> + font map.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> |