Corrupt console fonts

[Paul Howarth]

Simon Andrews wrote:
> I've just installed FC3 on an old PC (K6 500) and although X is working 
> fine all the consoles are filled with garbage through most of the boot 
> process and onwards.
> 
> The last thing I see before everything goes wrong is the message about 
> setting the default system font so I presume this is what's messing 
> things up.
> 
> I've checked my locale setting is correct (en_GB.UTF-8), but beyond that 
> I'm stuck for what else to try.  So I suppose I've got a few questions:
> 
> 1) Where is the default font set, and what could I change it to which 
> might work better.

/etc/sysconfig/i18n

It's the SYSFONT entry. I don't know what the alternative values you 
could use are.

> 2) Which hardware component is causing this to screw up?  The grahics 
> card?  I always thought the console stuff was so common it should never 
> really go wrong?
> 
> If it matters, the graphics card on this machine is a Trident Cyberblade 
> i7(Rev 5b) which is happily running in X using the trident driver.

Try booting with the "nofb" kernel parameter and see if that helps.

Paul.