3 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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7 Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
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22 <refentry id=
"systemd-vconsole-setup.service" conditional='ENABLE_VCONSOLE'
>
25 <title>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</title>
26 <productname>systemd
</productname>
30 <contrib>Developer
</contrib>
31 <firstname>Lennart
</firstname>
32 <surname>Poettering
</surname>
33 <email>lennart@poettering.net
</email>
39 <refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</refentrytitle>
40 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
44 <refname>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</refname>
45 <refname>systemd-vconsole-setup
</refname>
46 <refpurpose>Configure the virtual console at boot
</refpurpose>
50 <para><filename>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</filename></para>
51 <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup
</filename></para>
55 <title>Description
</title>
57 <para><filename>systemd-vconsole-setup.service
</filename> is an
58 early-boot service that configures the virtual console font and
59 console keymap. Internally it calls
60 <citerefentry project='mankier'
><refentrytitle>loadkeys
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
62 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>setfont
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
65 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
66 for information about the configuration files understood by this
73 <title>Kernel Command Line
</title>
75 <para>A few configuration parameters from
76 <filename>vconsole.conf
</filename> may be overridden on the kernel
79 <variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'
>
81 <term><varname>vconsole.keymap=
</varname></term>
82 <term><varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=
</varname></term>
84 <listitem><para>Overrides the key mapping table for the
85 keyboard and the second toggle keymap.
</para></listitem>
89 <term><varname>vconsole.font=
</varname></term>
90 <term><varname>vconsole.font.map=
</varname></term>
91 <term><varname>vconsole.font.unimap=
</varname></term>
93 <listitem><para>Configures the console font, the console map,
94 and the unicode font map.
</para></listitem>
99 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
100 for information about these settings.
</para>
104 <title>See Also
</title>
106 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
107 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vconsole.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
108 <citerefentry project='mankier'
><refentrytitle>loadkeys
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
109 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>setfont
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
110 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>