<para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file configures
the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping and console font. It is
- applied at boot by
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ applied at boot by udev using <filename>90-vconsole.rules</filename> file.
+ You can safely mask this file if you want to avoid this kind of initialization.
+ There is also <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ provided that you can conveniently use at any time to [re]initialize consoles.
+ </para>
<para>The basic file format of the
<filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a newline-separated list of
<para>Note that the kernel command line options
<varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname>,
- <varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=</varname>,
+ <varname>vconsole.keymap_toggle=</varname>,
<varname>vconsole.font=</varname>,
- <varname>vconsole.font.map=</varname>,
- <varname>vconsole.font.unimap=</varname> may be used
+ <varname>vconsole.font_map=</varname>,
+ <varname>vconsole.font_unimap=</varname> may be used
to override the console settings at boot.</para>
<para>Depending on the operating system other configuration files