[Solved] Early ATI radeon start so vconsole.conf font will work

Question

My console font gets set as per vconsole.conf then changes back to default when the radeon driver and/or KMS starts.
There's no VGA= on my kernel line and no other framebuffer drivers, so according to ATI#Early_start I can set this, but where, the kernel line?
AGP speed can be set with radeon.agpmode=x kernel option, where x is 1, 2, 4, 8 (AGP speed) or -1 (PCI mode).
somehow that will cause an early start? How do I know what AGP speed I want?
Or if I use method 2 from that wiki, adding radeon to Modules in mkinitcpio.conf, having never messed with that file, do I have to comb through lsmod and make sure that anything not in lsinitcpio -a is listed before radeon in modules? How do I know if/which of the suggested 'something'_agp modules to load?
Last edited by stozi (2013-09-25 21:11:34)

Answer 1

I would go with the second method, editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.
stozi wrote:How do I know if/which of the suggested 'something'_agp modules to load?
You could try combing the lsmod output with:
lsmod |grep agp
and figure which module needs to be placed first in the MODULES array. Additionally, as stated in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font#Examples_2, you need to append the consolefont hook in the HOOKS array near the end of the file. That way, the console font is set after KMS and not before, which I believe to be the issue.