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#1 2021-01-15 03:48:16

nintenloup
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Registered: 2021-01-14
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[SOLVED] System doesn't apply settings from the vconsole.conf file.

Hello to all of you. So I live in a region that isn't speaking english so I want the font and the keyboard to be set accordingly to my region. sadly, /etc/vconsole.conf doesn't seem to work I added the lines :

FONT=lat1-16
KEYMAP=ca_multi

Before you ask, ca_multi comes from https://aur.archlinux.org/ca_multi.git. I also tried with KEYMAP=cf, which is a keymap installed by default in the system to the same result, my keyboard stays in us layout and the font doesn't change. This works flawlessly under archlinux64 on my other systems. I dunno if i'm doing something wrong. If that helps, using the commands loadkeys and setfont works by themselves.

Last edited by levi (2021-01-15 21:24:26)

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#2 2021-01-15 11:40:52

deep42thought
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From: Jena, Germany
Registered: 2017-06-17
Posts: 617

Re: [SOLVED] System doesn't apply settings from the vconsole.conf file.

check out the thread about a similar issue

hth,
deep42thought

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#3 2021-01-15 18:22:06

levi
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From: Yorkshire, UK
Registered: 2018-06-16
Posts: 1,197

Re: [SOLVED] System doesn't apply settings from the vconsole.conf file.

Ah, so perhaps the vconsole.conf isn't actually read from the filesystem during boot, it's read and loaded from your inticpio instead and never again fettled with by the kernel.

Edit: Could this perhaps be different between archlinux32 and archlinux64?

Last edited by levi (2021-01-15 18:22:48)


Architecture: pentium4, Testing repos: Yes, Hardware: EeePC 901+2GB RAM+OS half on the SD card.

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#4 2021-01-15 19:10:32

deep42thought
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From: Jena, Germany
Registered: 2017-06-17
Posts: 617

Re: [SOLVED] System doesn't apply settings from the vconsole.conf file.

IIRC, the issue in the linked thread was, that the keymap file could not be inflated during boot in the initsystem. Thus, it was never loaded. The solution was to unzip the keymap file manually.

This was specific to archlinux32, because the original failure was some seccomp or whatnot in gzip during early boot.

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#5 2021-01-15 19:13:37

nintenloup
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Registered: 2021-01-14
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Re: [SOLVED] System doesn't apply settings from the vconsole.conf file.

deep42thought wrote:

check out the thread about a similar issue

hth,
deep42thought

Thank you, this worked for me, problem solved.

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