Fonts do not get set when one boots using usplash

I fixed this a little while ago in Feisty:

console-setup (1.13ubuntu6) feisty; urgency=low

  * Set keymap and font in the initramfs if possible. Setting these as early
    as possible is a good thing; we can't set up the font correctly once
    usplash is running; and setting up the font between usplash and X
    requires an ugly mode switch.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:21:24 +0000

reopening by request of submitter

/etc/default/console-setup is attached.

initramfs is attached.

This bug exists in Edgy Eft and Feisty Herd 4.
(Both are Kubuntu.)

I had the same problem on feisty today
seems the same bug as
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-data/+bug/69559
which I fixed in /etc/init.d/usplash .
I'm using kubuntu here too.

@Colin Watson:
Your change to initramfs seems to do it's job very well - thanks !
But unfortunately usplash breaks it again, so I needed to fix it again here as soon as usplash is going away.

Please have a look at my patch in #69559:
http://librarian.launchpad.net/6861279/console-setup-usplash.patch

Setting to confirmed.

changing package to uspash, because this one is breaking things

Unfortunately my patch to /etc/init.d/usplash does not help in case of resume from disk (hibernate) where usplash breaks it again.

BTW
I use nvidia binary driver, which seems to prevent vesafb/nvidiafb from working. May this lead usplash to mess with the screen ? Additionally usplash complains about not being able to switch to 1280x1024 (which is my TFT) and uses 1024x786 instead. That's all pretty weird IMHO :-/

A fix for resume:
http://librarian.launchpad.net/6877480/66-console-setup.sh

Additional comment:
Even worse is this bug, when I configure console-setup FONTSIZE="8" which I did to get more lines without having higher resolution (fbcon not working) :
When it goes wrong, fontsize defaults to 16 and then bottom halfs of consoles are completely out of visible screen area. So someone who does not know about setupcon can only use 25 lines and then the prompt and his inputs get invisible.

> Please have a look at my patch in #69559:
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/6861279/console-setup-usplash.patch

The patch allone did not work for me, because console-setup does not do anything when started on tty8. I also had to change
        if expr "$(fgconsole 2>/dev/null || true)" : '[1-6]$' >/dev/null && \
to
        if expr "$(fgconsole 2>/dev/null || true)" : '[1-68]$' >/dev/null && \
 in /etc/init.d/console-setup.

Works for me, but I am not absolutely sure this is the way to go.

I too selected FONTSIZE="8" and have the same issue as Kurt. I used to just say vga=791 as part of the kernel boot args, and that worked for me, or maybe that was a few distros ago ...

I think I've fixed this as bug 91422.