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- Debian notes for console-tools:
-
- 0. kbd
-
- THE console-tools package is no longer maintained upstream, and is
- deprecated, being replaced by the 'kbd' package.
-
- 1. default.map
-
- On boot, the system loads its keymap from the
- `/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz' file. This file is usually generated by the
- install process, using 'dpkg-reconfigure console-common' or the install-keymap
- utility provided in console-common. If you really need to mess with it by hand,
- please keep in mind that this file is interpreted before any
- filesystem is mounted (other than the root fs).
-
- This means that any `include' statement or such will not resolve if
- the included file is not on the root filesystem.
-
- If you really need to mess with this file by hand, please consider
- filing a wishlist bug-report for the feature you need.
-
-
- 2. showcfont, shfont, and showfont
-
- The `showcfont' program was previously known upstream as `showfont',
- but was distributed in Debian as `shfont' because there is a showfont
- program provided by the xcontrib package. Now the conflict does not
- exist any more upstream and the program name is kept unchanged.
-
- 3. resizecons
-
- resizecons is no longer included, as it was broken and unportable.
- Please use svgatextmode or fbset instead.
-
- 4. switchto
-
- switchto, in the original 'open' package, has been replaced by 'chvt' in this
- package.
-
- 5. console-screen.sh
-
- console-screen.sh now changes unimap and fonts on all consoles, not just the current one.
- Unfortunately doing this requires changing the current console. (See bug #226457),
- which leads to ugly blinking. This should be fixed later with better kernel calls.
-