Re: Re: garbage on screen when in text mode

From: Sam Watkins (swatkins_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: Allasso Travesser <allasso@bacavalley.com>

    Sam wrote:
    > consolechars -f default8x16
    > consolechars -f default8x9

    On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:35:44AM -0700, Allasso Travesser wrote:
    > Where do you put your script? I tried running it on the command line,
    > and I get an *invalid argument* error.

    You have to run it as root, from a virtual terminal (not an xterm).

    > Also, do the files in /usr/share/consolefonts/ have to be unpacked and
    > put somewhere in order to be used? I notice that they are .gz files.

    No, they work fine compressed. 

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