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NAME

       console-setup - configuration file for setupcon

DESCRIPTION

The file console-setup specifies the encoding and the font to be used by setupcon(1) in
order to setup the console. It can be used also to specify the keyboard layout but it is
not recommended to do so, use keyboard(5) instead.

The font specification consists of three parameters - codeset, font face and font size.
The codeset specifies what characters will be supported by the font. There isn't one-to-
one correspondence between codeset and encoding, for example the codeset Lat15 is suitable
for ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-9 and ISO 8859-15. The codesets are two kinds - small and big.
Only small codesets are supported on FreeBSD.

The font face determines the general look of the font. Each font face is available in
certain possible sizes. On FreeBSD only 8x16, 8x14 and 8x8 are valid sizes. On Linux if
framebuffer is not used or consolechars(1) is installed instead of setfont(1), then the
permitted sizes have the form 8xNUMBER.

The console driver of FreeBSD permits fonts in different sizes to be simultaneously
loaded. Which one of them will be actually used depends on the current video mode.
Therefore, on this platform the font size specification will be ignored and setupcon(1)
will load the selected font face in all available sizes.

The file console-setup consists of variable settings in POSIX format:

VARIABLE='VALUE'

Only one assignment is allowed per line. Comments (starting with '#') are also allowed.

OPTIONS

The following variables can be set.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES
Specifies the device files in /dev of the virtual terminals to be configured. File
name wild-cards (*, ?) are allowed. On Linux usually you can set this to
/dev/tty[1-6] and on FreeBSD a sensible value is /dev/ttyv[0-8]. You can assign to
this variable also the special value guess. It will cause setupcon(1) to attempt
to guess the active virtual consoles by looking in configuration files such as
/etc/inittab and /etc/ttys. This guessing is not always reliable.

CHARMAP
Specifies the desired encoding on the console. Valid values are: UTF-8, ARMSCII-8,
CP1251, CP1255, CP1256, GEORGIAN-ACADEMY, GEORGIAN-PS, IBM1133, ISIRI-3342,
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7,
ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14,
ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, TIS-620 and VISCII. The special value
guess is also recognized in which case the system command locale(1) will be used to
guess the desired encoding (currently this works reliably only with GNU libc).

CODESET
In most cases the special value guess can be used here in which case a suitable
codeset will be guessed. The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the
font. Valid small codesets are: Armenian, CyrAsia, CyrKoi, CyrSlav, Georgian,
Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Lat15, Lat2, Lat38, Lat7 and Thai. Valid big codesets are:
Arabic, Ethiopian, Uni1, Uni2, Uni3 and Vietnamese. Only small codesets can be
used on FreeBSD. See below the section entitled “CODESETS” for detailed
description of each of these codesets.

FONTFACE and FONTSIZE
Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8x8, 8x14, 8x16, 16x28 and 16x32), Terminus (sizes
6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32), TerminusBold (sizes 8x14, 8x16,
10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32), TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 8x14 and 8x16), and Fixed
(sizes 8x13, 8x14, 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18). If however CODESET=Ethiopian, then the
available font faces are Goha and GohaClassic, each in sizes 8x12, 8x14 and 8x16.

Set FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to empty strings if you want to configure only the
keyboard and to leave the console font unchanged.

VIDEOMODE
Set VIDEOMODE to an empty string to avoid setting up the video mode. On FreeBSD
you can run

vidcontrol -i mode

in order to see all possible video modes. On Linux fbset(1) is used to configure
the video mode but very often this doesn't work because the default framebuffer
driver (VesaFB) is rather limited and doesn't allow changes of the video mode.

FONT, FONT_MAP and CONSOLE_MAP
If set, specify that a non standard font is to be used. The value of the variable
FONT consists of one or more space separated font file names. On Linux, when the
font doesn't contain embedded Unicode map, an external map can be specified with
the variable FONT_MAP. The value of CONSOLE_MAP is a file that specifies a
translation map from the user's 8-bit encoding to Unicode (Linux only) or directly
to font positions.

SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT
If set, these variables specify a screen size that setupcon(1) will enforce with
stty(1). This can be useful with some braille devices that are only 40 cells wide.
The screen size can not exceed what the current screen resolution can display
according to the size of the loaded font.

BEEP This variable controls the style of the system beep on the console. When unset or
when BEEP=default no changes to the system beep will be made. Other possible
values of BEEP are: standard - set a standard beep; short - like the standard beep
but somewhat shorter; shortest - even more short, suitable when your work generates
lots of beeps; polite - a very short beep with low frequency, suitable when there
are other people in the room; attention - a very long beep, suitable when you want
to warn yourself about an occurring event; annoying - also a long beep, suitable
when you want to warn somebody else about an occurring event; and off - disable the
system beep on the console.

CODESETS

       There are two kinds of codesets - small (up to 256 symbols) and big (up  to  512 symbols).
       Only  small  codesets  can  be  used  on  FreeBSD.   When the screen is in text mode (i.e.
       framebuffer is not used) then fonts covering  big  codesets  will  reduce  the  number  of
       available foreground colors.

   Arabic (a big codeset)
       Supported languages: Arabic, Kurdish in Iran, Pashto, Persian and Urdu.

       Completely  covered by the following font faces: Fixed (size 8x16) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and
       16x32).

   Armenian
       Supported language: Armenian.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).

   CyrAsia
       This codeset supports some of  the  non-Slavic  Cyrillic  languages  -  Abkhazia,  Avaric,
       Azerbaijani,  Bashkir,  Buryat,  Chechen,  Chuvash, Inupiaq (Eskimo), Kara-Kalpak, Kazakh,
       Kirgiz, Komi, Kumyk,  Kurdish,  Lezghian,  Mari  (Cheremis),  Mongolian,  Ossetic,  Selkup
       (Ostyak-Samoyed), Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Uzbek and Yakut.

       Completely supported by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).

   CyrKoi
       Supports  entirely  the  8-bit  encodings  KOI8-R  and  KOI8-U.   Suitable for Russian and
       Ukrainian when one of these two encodings is used.

       Completely  covered  by  the  following  font  faces  (in  all  sizes):  Fixed,  Terminus,
       TerminusBold, TerminusBoldVGA and VGA.

   CyrSlav
       Supports entirely the 8-bit encodings ISO-8859-5 and CP1251.  Suitable the Slavic Cyrillic
       languages - Belarusian,  Bulgarian,  Macedonian,  Russian,  Serbian  and  Ukrainian.   For
       Serbian both the Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets are supported.

       Completely  covered  by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes),
       TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).

   Ethiopian (a big codeset)
       Supports Amharic, Ethiopic (Geez), Tigre and Tigrinya.

       This codeset is partially covered by the following  font  faces:  Fixed  (sizes  8x15  and
       8x18), Goha (all sizes) and GohaClassic (all sizes).

   Georgian
       Supported language: Georgian.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).

   Greek
       Supported language: Greek.

       Completely  covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and
       16x32).

   Hebrew
       Supported languages: Hebrew and Yiddish.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x15,  8x16  and  8x18)
       and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).

   Lao
       Supported languages: Lao.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x15 and 8x16).

   Lat15
       Covers entirely ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-9 and ISO-8859-15.  Suitable for the so called Latin1
       and Latin5 languages - Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian,  Aragonese,  Asturian,  Aymara,  Basque,
       Bislama,  Breton,  Catalan,  Chamorro,  Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian,
       Finnish,  French,  Frisian,  Friulian,  Galician,  German,  Hiri  Motu,  Icelandic,   Ido,
       Indonesian,  Interlingua,  Interlingue,  Italian,  Low  Saxon,  Lule  Sami, Luxembourgish,
       Malagasy, Manx Gaelic, Norwegian Bokmal,  Norwegian  Nynorsk,  Occitan,  Oromo  or  Galla,
       Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch), Scots Gaelic, Somali, South Sami, Spanish, Swahili,
       Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Volapuk, Votic, Walloon, Xhosa, Yapese and Zulu.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus  (all  sizes),
       TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).

   Lat2
       Covers  entirely  ISO-8859-2.  The Euro sign and the Romanian letters with comma below are
       also supported.  Suitable for the so called Latin2 languages - Bosnian,  Croatian,  Czech,
       Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian (lower and upper).

       Completely  covered  by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes),
       TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).

   Lat38
       Covers entirely ISO-8859-3 and  ISO-8859-14.   Suitable  for  Chichewa  Esperanto,  Irish,
       Maltese and Welsh.

       Completely  covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and
       16x32).

   Lat7
       Covers entirely ISO-8859-13.  Suitable for Lithuanian, Latvian, Maori and Marshallese.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus  (all  sizes),
       TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).

   Thai
       Supported language: Thai.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).

   Uni1 (a big codeset)
       Supports  most  of  the  Latin languages, the Slavic Cyrillic languages, Hebrew and barely
       Arabic.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x15 and 8x16) and  VGA  (all
       sizes).

   Uni2 (a big codeset)
       Supports most of the Latin languages, the Slavic Cyrillic languages and Greek.

       Completely  covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and
       16x32).

   Uni3 (a big codeset)
       Supports most of the Latin and Cyrillic languages.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).

   Vietnamese (a big codeset)
       Supported language: Vietnamese.

       Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18).

FILES

       The standard location of the console-setup  configuration  file  is  /etc/default/console-
       setup.   The  keyboard  configuration is in /etc/default/keyboard.  Fonts that can be used
       with  the  variable  FONT   are   usually   installed   in   /usr/share/consolefonts/   or
       /usr/share/syscons/fonts/.    Translation   maps  that  can  be  used  with  the  variable
       CONSOLE_MAP     are     usually     installed     in      /usr/share/consoletrans/      or
       /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps/.

NOTES