From: Fabrice =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E9nard?= <menard.fabrice@wanadoo.fr>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fbcon and unimap (kernel 2.6.8.1) again
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:53:15 +0200
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Hi,

Switching from 2.6.5 to 2.6.8.1, I found the same problem with accented chars 
at boot time (fbcon didn't set a unicode map in 2.6.5).
Looking into fbcon.c, I found that in the 2.6.8.1 release it is done in 
fbcon_startup (fbcon.c).  I don't know exactly the internals but I think this 
call is misplaced (maybe too late for the boot process ?).

So I placed a call to con_set_default_unimap in fbcon_init and it works fine !

Here is the patch

--- linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c.orig 2004-09-26 
15:48:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c 2004-09-26 14:27:37.000000000 
+0200
@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *v
    softback_top = 0;
   }
  }
+ con_set_default_unimap(vc->vc_num);
 }
 
 static void fbcon_deinit(struct vc_data *vc)

(I think it doesn't hurt to leave the previous call in fbcont_startup)

regards,

-- 
Fabrice M?nard
menard.fabrice@wanadoo.fr
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