Bug 13146

Summary: starting X destroys/modifies console font
Product: xorg Reporter: Matthias Dahl <ua_bugzilla_freedesktop>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
xorg.conf
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Description Matthias Dahl 2007-11-08 07:50:53 UTC 
I use "lat1-16" as console font. Whenever I switch to xorg and back to the vt,
the font will be reset to something not latin1. More precisely, the font always
gets reset to some 80x25 font... no matter what size I had used originally.

Setting the console font again manually works until the next xorg <-> vt
switch.

Some more hints:

1) I am using the nvidia drivers but this also happens with the nv driver which I just tested.

2) According to some forum posts, this doesn't seem to be limited to some graphics card brand. 

3) This problem started sometime around July if I remember correctly. I hoped for the Xorg 7.3 release to fix this... but unfortunately it didn't.

I'll attach my xorg.[conf|log] in a few minutes for more informations.
Comment 1 Matthias Dahl 2007-11-08 07:51:13 UTC 
Created attachment 12404 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 2 Matthias Dahl 2007-11-08 07:51:34 UTC 
Created attachment 12405 [details]
xorg.log
Comment 3 Jesse Adkins 2010-12-01 16:45:13 UTC 
Is this still an issue with you on a newer version of xserver? If so, can you reproduce the issue using the vesa driver?
Comment 4 Matthias Dahl 2013-12-11 14:45:37 UTC 
I took the liberty to mark this as fixed since every time I ran into this problem over the years, it was the NVIDIA blob causing it and it took them months to eventually fix it.

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