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The text in fbterm is garbled, and I can't come up with any more ideas. $TERM is set to fbterm, no problem there. In addition, tput colors reports 256 colors. I've tried different fonts, makes no difference at all.

The machine is a Powerbook G3 "Pismo" with an ATI Rage 128 graphics card and 1024x768 native resolution.

Any suggestions?

fbcat screenshot

Sathyajith Bhat
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TonyI
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I've ran fbterm on a couple of different distros in Virtualbox and the only fonts which render correctly are bitmap fonts. This wasn't always the case but that's abandonware for you.

Good fonts to check out are Terminus, Spleen, & GohuFont.

You'll need to do this after installing your font:

fc-cache -r
fc-list | less # then look for your font in the output

fc-list gives the following format per line:

/path/to/font.xyz: name:style=Style

Get the name of your font and open ~/.fbtermrc. If that file doesn't exist, just run fbterm once and exit. fbterm creates the file during the first execution.

Where it says font-names:<font> in the file, put your font name.

crinklywrappr
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