In your /etc/default/console-setup, set VERBOSE_OUTPUT=yes; and make sure that you run setupcon as root.
Any change? If not, please include the output that console-setup gives (you may want to run it as "sudo setupcon >&/tmp/setupcon.out" or some such, to obtain the output so you can paste it into your response).
I had forgotten two things:
In your /etc/default/ console- setup, set VERBOSE_OUTPUT=yes; and make sure that you run setupcon as root.
Any change? If not, please include the output that console-setup gives (you may want to run it as "sudo setupcon >&/tmp/ setupcon. out" or some such, to obtain the output so you can paste it into your response).