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> What's wrong with the ancient console ioctl()s to change the font at runtine?
> (damned, I can't remember the name of the command)

Their is a bunch of them but the one mosted used is KD_FONT_OP_*. Look at
linux/kd.h for more details. The nice bonus about this is that it is
driver independent.