console-tools vs. kbd (Re: Suggestions for Hoary)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:18:01AM -0500, aledin wrote:

> Christoffer Soerensen Wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > I have some suggestions for Hoary. Here goes:
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> I have too.
> Console-tools can't handles big (12x22, like sun ones) font for the
> framebuffer, kbd can. But installing kbd breaks something (it have to
> remove base-config and ubuntu-base), so i have created a virtual
> console-tools wih equivs to temporaly fix this dependencies problem.
> 
> It's a little suggestion about a little thing: if the next release
> can't have a console-tools that can handle big fonts (a lot of laptops
> have only one resolution, 1024x768 and up... so normal fonts for
> framebuffer are difficult to read...), i suggest to make a dependency
> of base-config and ubuntu-base (and other things, of course) to
> console-tools|kbd, also if kbd continues to be in universe repository.

Sounds like a bug in console-tools; if you can provide some details about
exactly what you tried, what doesn't work, and preferably some information
about how to fix it, that would be great.

-- 
 - mdz