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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

Op donderdag 29-10-2009 om 13:44 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Javier
Vasquez:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering while the test grimoire is still using 1.96 release,
> when 1.97 is there.  In my own grimoire 1.97 is working nice.
> 
> The other thing is that gub2 comes with gfxterm:
> 
> http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm
> 
> Other distributions like archlinux and debian install along with grub2
> the following:
> 
> /usr/share/grub/ascii.pf2
> /usr/share/grub/unifont.pf2
> 
> They are necessary in order for gfxterm to work.  I have under
> /etc/grub.d/05_background a setting to define how to color the menu if
> not gfxterm when no image is found, but when an image is found, then
> use gfxterm only if the fonts are available.  Problem is that the
> fonts are not available, :-)
> 
> Now, I was looking for ascii or unicode fonts package from test,
> binary, games and z-rejected, and I didn't find any.  Do you know what
> aproach I could take in order to generate this fonts?  Perhaps I could
> modify the spell so that theres a dependency on some packages, and the
> a install post-process to compile the pf2 ones..
> 
> Thanks,
> 

That's because the other distro's generate the fonts for you.
You might want to cast grub2 again and say 'y' to the question
        'build and install the grub-mkfont utility?'

With that utility you can generate your own fonts for use with grub.
Feel free to add a spell for your generated fontpack ;)

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Arjan Bouter

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