Console fonts (for people with good eyesight?)

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at sharism.cc
Tue Feb 23 23:55:22 EST 2010


James,

> Slightly puzzled as to why loadfont and friends aren't enabled in the
> standard distribution, since it's rather nice to change the console
> font so one can fit a bit more in. This is presumably a hangover from
> openwrt's router focus. I'd suggest it's a useful enhancement for the
> next image (along with fixed sound?).

Thanks a lot, didn't know about loadfont but seems to be good!
I added it to the software wishlist at
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Software_Wishlist#Applications

Wolfgang

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:58:52PM -0500, James Haggerty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Slightly puzzled as to why loadfont and friends aren't enabled in the
> standard distribution, since it's rather nice to change the console
> font so one can fit a bit more in. This is presumably a hangover from
> openwrt's router focus. I'd suggest it's a useful enhancement for the
> next image (along with fixed sound?).
> 
> This is as simple as recompiling busybox with the appropriate options
> enabled. If anyone would like to play with fonts now without
> recompiling, I've uploaded an updated busybox package (and a kbd
> package, from before I realised busybox had this functionality):
> 
> http://ouga.mine.nu/jamesh/xburst/
> 
> Unfortunately, for some reason setfont always fails with the message:
> setfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid argument
> but loadfont works perfectly (as does setfont in the kbd package).
> 
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