[gentoo-user] Strange consolefont error

[gentoo-user] Strange consolefont error

[Kristian Niemi]

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Every now and then I get the following error on bootup:
	putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
In effect, (/etc/init.d/)consolefont fails to start properly. I have to 
restart it manually -- and if I do, it works just fine (i.e. it changes 
the font).

What makes it strange, in my opinion, is the `every now and then'-part. 
This error doesn't occur every time; that is, sometimes consolefont 
starts up just fine, no error messages, font changed.

Is this some kind of bug -- if so, what exactly, do you think, is 
`buggy'? Or might it just be some setting somewhere that might be set up 
properly?

This is my font-settings in /etc/rc.conf:
	KEYMAP="sv-latin1"
	EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=
	CONSOLEFONT="iso01.14"
	CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni"


h: Kristian

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[gentoo-user] Re: Strange consolefont error

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Kristian Niemi wrote:

> Every now and then I get the following error on bootup:
> putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
> In effect, (/etc/init.d/)consolefont fails to start properly. I have to
> restart it manually -- and if I do, it works just fine (i.e. it changes
> the font).

I noticed the same thing.  It either has always happened for me, or it
started when I started adding the framebuffer stuff.  I worked around it by
using the default console font.  Do this by commenting out the CONSOLEFONT
line  in rc.conf.

I suspect that it has something to do with the framebuffer console drivers.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange consolefont error

[Kristian Niemi]

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Thanks for the tip. Sounds plausible that it's related to the 
framebuffer -- but it still seems quite strange that it doesn't happen 
every time. I don't know how to reiplicate the behaviour every time.

That said, the `weirdness' might be due to a framebuffer bug, not a 
consolefont-one (i.e. the script `consolefont')? Out of curiosity, what 
video card do you have? I have a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile.


When it does work, I haven't changed anything in my systems setup.

I'm not using the default console-font, since I want to be able to 
use/see the scandinavian characters (åäö). (So everytime I get the 
PIO_FONT I can't use the scand. char. -- that is, not before I've 
restarted consolefont.)


Kristian

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> Kristian Niemi wrote:
> 
> 
>>Every now and then I get the following error on bootup:
>>putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
>>In effect, (/etc/init.d/)consolefont fails to start properly. I have to
>>restart it manually -- and if I do, it works just fine (i.e. it changes
>>the font).
> 
> 
> I noticed the same thing.  It either has always happened for me, or it
> started when I started adding the framebuffer stuff.  I worked around it by
> using the default console font.  Do this by commenting out the CONSOLEFONT
> line  in rc.conf.
> 
> I suspect that it has something to do with the framebuffer console drivers.
> 
> 

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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange consolefont error

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Kristian Niemi wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. Sounds plausible that it's related to the
> framebuffer -- but it still seems quite strange that it doesn't happen
> every time. I don't know how to reiplicate the behaviour every time.

Agreed... but it was intermittent for me as well.

> That said, the `weirdness' might be due to a framebuffer bug, not a
> consolefont-one (i.e. the script `consolefont')? Out of curiosity, what
> video card do you have? I have a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile.

Yeah, I agree that it's likely a framebuffer bug.  For example, another
anomoly I've seen with framebuffer is that when I use the "silent" profile,
the framebuffer image only initializes vc/0.  However, if I use the
"verbose" profile, it will initialize all of my vc's (like it's supposed to
do).

My card is an Intel 82852/82855 Integrated Graphics (i8x0)

> When it does work, I haven't changed anything in my systems setup.

Same here.


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