Bug 43925

Summary:	Default console font causes blue text to become strike-through
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) <jstubbs>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-06 16:28:38 UTC

Booting up into a new Gentoo system when not using framebuffer, any text which is blue is also strikethrough. Running "rc-update del consolefont" gets around the problem.

I have a NVidia GeForce4 MX 420 Go 16MB on a Sony Vaio Japanese notebook.

I forgot that I have this problem as I had it 'fixed' long before I finished installing everything. Another user has now mentioned having the same problem, so I'll ask them to post their details or do it for them.

Comment 1 lola 2004-03-07 15:18:50 UTC

I have this problem as well. I have an MSI GeForce 440 MX on an ASUS 440BX mobo.  In my case, if I do "rc-update del consolefont", then I get underlined blue text instead of strike-through blue text. This is really no better in vim-it's still distracting-and the card's font is very ugly. I tried setting the DIR line in /etc/DIR_COLORS to a couple of different settings like 00;34 and 04;34 which didn't work. 04;34 resulted in bold white text instead of underlined blue text.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-03 02:58:16 UTC

ive seen this before; it's a hardware issue

edit /etc/rc.conf and set CONSOLEFONT to something that works for that machine