Ubuntu
console-setup package

  1. Bug #1443853
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1443853

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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

I think that in this day and age EGA console fonts are meaningless for 99% of the user base or more. I also think that if you remove the functionality the remaining 1% will complain very loudly. However, I suspect that many of those will have set up custom fonts to be loaded. So my suggested fix is to comment out everything in /etc/default/console-setup. Then the code will just not execute for users who have not set up custom fonts.

Someone who actually understands the details of this should check whether this makes sense before implementing it.