setfont/kbd_mode - which console?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 8 21:42:54 UTC 2008


On Saturday 08 November 2008 11:00, Roy Marples wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:03, Roy Marples wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 14:58:30 Roy Marples wrote:
> >>> So, in an attempt yet again to get OpenRC to boot cleanly using busybox
> >>> here's a patch that enables -C device for kbd_mode and setfont. The patch
> >>> is done so extending similar support for other console tools is fairly
> >>> trivial.
> > 
> > setfont has it already:
> 
> So it has.
> My bad for not checking svn.
> 
> > As for kbd_mode, googling for "man kbd_mode" shows that kbd_mode
> > has no -C option. I am somewhat opposed to adding our own
> > options. This OpenRC thing - does it really use "kbd_mode -C TTY"?
> > What is their kbd_mode (what "kbd_mode --version"
> > and "kbd_mode --help" say)?
> 
> Yes, it uses kbd_mode -C TTY
> It's not in the man page, but it is in the sources.
> It does not support any long options, but the package is kbd-1.14.1

Ok, I made kbd_mode accept -C TTY. Please check current svn.
--
vda



More information about the busybox mailing list