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8 This file is part of systemd.
10 Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
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25 <refentry id=
"systemd-vconsole-setup.service" conditional='ENABLE_VCONSOLE'
>
28 <title>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</title>
29 <productname>systemd
</productname>
33 <contrib>Developer
</contrib>
34 <firstname>Lennart
</firstname>
35 <surname>Poettering
</surname>
36 <email>lennart@poettering.net
</email>
42 <refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</refentrytitle>
43 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
47 <refname>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</refname>
48 <refname>systemd-vconsole-setup
</refname>
49 <refpurpose>Configure the virtual console at boot
</refpurpose>
53 <para><filename>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</filename></para>
54 <para><filename>&rootlibexecdir;/systemd-vconsole-setup
</filename></para>
58 <title>Description
</title>
60 <para><filename>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</filename> is an
61 early-boot service that configures the virtual console font and
62 console keymap. Internally it calls
63 <citerefentry project='mankier'
><refentrytitle>loadkeys
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
65 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>setfont
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
68 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
69 for information about the configuration files understood by this
76 <title>Kernel Command Line
</title>
78 <para>A few configuration parameters from
79 <filename>vconsole.conf
</filename> may be overridden on the kernel
82 <variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'
>
84 <term><varname>vconsole.keymap=
</varname></term>
85 <term><varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=
</varname></term>
87 <listitem><para>Overrides the key mapping table for the
88 keyboard and the second toggle keymap.
</para></listitem>
92 <term><varname>vconsole.font=
</varname></term>
93 <term><varname>vconsole.font.map=
</varname></term>
94 <term><varname>vconsole.font.unimap=
</varname></term>
96 <listitem><para>Configures the console font, the console map,
97 and the unicode font map.
</para></listitem>
102 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
103 for information about these settings.
</para>
107 <title>See Also
</title>
109 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
110 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
111 <citerefentry project='mankier'
><refentrytitle>loadkeys
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
112 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>setfont
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
113 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>