I am giving Aeon a try on my laptop after using Tumbleweed for a while. Unforunately the TPM module on my laptop is just behind the encryption spec so I have to use fallback. The fallback screen (and also the ttys) are tiny, and I don’t seem to be able to change this.
I attempted to change this to solar24x32.psfu.gz by doing the following:
sudo transactional-update shell
vi /etc/vconsole.conf
This unfortunately did not apply it properly, though it did appear after entering the passkey. Worse I could not login to my gnome desktop as it got stuck on a boot loop. It couldn’t start the gnome-shell which there were some journal logs for but I don’t think it did what I intended anyway. I have since reinstalled.
Is there something I’m missing here? Or a more reliable way of doing what I need to do?
@matthew-rimmer you need to rebuild initrd transactional-update initrd also you don’t need to use the shell (bad idea anyway unless debugging, use run) as /etc/ is writable.
Likewise just solar24x32.psfu will suffice, the system knows where they are etc.
This unfortunately breaks things once again. After I reboot after running transactional-update initrd, while my initial login screen is now the correct font, this breaks two things:
The passkey screen now no longer seems to use the UK layout (" is now @, etc)
I am stuck in a login loop when trying to start GNOME. I can login fine via tty into the cli but not into my graphical environment
I attempted to revert the font back and rerunning transactional-update initrd but this does not fix it. There is no snapshot either so I can’t revert it that way. My only recourse now is really to reinstall unless there is a way to fix this
Does the Aeon bootloader allow editing at the boot menu? Does it even have a boot menu? If yes and Grub, you can test a workaround by appending a lower resolution video mode to the linu line that should stick to the vttys. e.g.: video=1920x1080 for a native 2560x1440 or 3840x2160display. A satisfactory result can be made persistent via inclusion in /etc/default/grub’s GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line, which /boot/grub2/grub.cfg regeneration should apply.
I fixed the login loop. Moving my dconf to a backup:
mv ~/.config/dconf ~/.config/dconf.bak
Fixed this. So I now have the font I want and I can login, which is wonderful!
The keyboard language on the login is the only issue now. Is there any way to change this? It seems to be correct in TTY, but definitely not on the password input screen. No worries if not, not as huge a deal. Thanks for your help everyone!