On 25.06.2014 20:49, poma wrote:

On 25.06.2014 20:10, Felix Miata wrote:

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On 2014-06-25 10:05 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

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So...these are three different machines?

3 out of 14 on which Rawhide is currently installed (test machines total 20+) here, among which are represented various flavors of MGA (400 & 550), SiS (Z7/Z9 XG20 core), Intel (810, 815, 845, 865, 915, 945, 965, 3100, 4100), ATI (rv200, rv250, rv370, rv380, rv516) & NVidia for video.

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I'm curious: why are you passing video= parameters on each one? Do any/all of them work if you don't pass that parameter?

Most of my test machines get used most of the time with a '21"' CRT with preferred mode 1600x1200 reported as preferred mode 1280x1024 used at approximately 175% of normal viewing distance. Avoiding eyestrain requires 1152x864 or lower on the vttys unless I want to monkey with terminal font reconfiguration from default.

My second most used test machine display is a 19" LCD TV with native mode 1440x900 that reports preferred 1280x1024 but supports 4:3 modes up to 1792x1344. It is used at similar distance, so also needs 1024x768 on the vttys for the same reason as the CRT.

I also have 2 15" 1024x768, 17" & 19" 1280x1024 and 20" 1600x1200 LCD puter displays, 2 31.5" TVs, and an abundance of other CRTs to use as test conditions require, in addition to the LCDs used for my 24/7 systems that can be briefly pressed into test service when necessary.

# yum install terminus-fonts-console

• permanent system wide

/etc/vconsole.conf FONT=<Big mama font>

e.g. 'latarcyrheb-sun32' or 'ter-v32b'

• runtime local

$ setfont latarcyrheb-sun32 $ setfont ter-v32b

systemd-214-5.fc21.x86_64 kernel-3.16.0-0.rc3.git0.1.fc21.x86_64

It seems this kernel? bug is still present[2].

"rd.vconsole.font=ter-v32b" also fails to subsist due to "fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA".

- journal systemd-vconsole-setup systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console... systemd-vconsole-setup[347]: putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument systemd-vconsole-setup[347]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71. systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console.

I've found so far that this can only be overcome with these two almost identical solutions; When I thought of 'actual-vconsole-setup-start' I did not know that Yegor already done it. Saṃsāra.

Yegor's solution[1]: # cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service /etc/systemd/system/ # diff /etc/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service \

/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service

13,14c13,14 < After=sysinit.target < Before=shutdown.target ---

After=systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target

or even simpler - leave 'systemd-vconsole-setup.service' as is, and make this one /etc/systemd/system/actual-vconsole-setup-start.service: # Actual Virtual Console Setup Start

[Unit] Description=Actual Virtual Console Setup Start

[Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup

[Install] WantedBy=rescue.target multi-user.target

# systemctl enable actual-vconsole-setup-start.service

and now you have appropriate font size for 1920x1080, no need to lower resolution via "video=<xres>x<yres>". Perhaps '32' is too large, so choose <= '28', e.g. ter-v28b or ter-v24b. /usr/share/doc/terminus-fonts-console/README[.fedora]

poma

[1] systemd-vconsole-setup: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-June/002562.html

[2] Can not change console font via /etc/vconsole.conf https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074113

The keyboard layout for the virtual console cannot be changed using “localectl set-keymap <map>; dracut -f; reboot;” https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033250

font settings are lost when kernel fb drivers are changed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340

Kernel drivers lose console font settings https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074624