Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761756AbYG3Xkw (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:40:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761619AbYG3Xkd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:40:33 -0400 Received: from relay03.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([123.2.6.238]:45918 "EHLO relay03.mail-hub.dodo.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761599AbYG3Xkc (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:40:32 -0400 From: Grant Coady To: Rene Herman Cc: Grant Coady , Tim Bird , Marco Berizzi , Alistair John Strachan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: commit a29ccf6f823a84d89e1c7aaaf221cf7282022024 break console on slackware 12.1 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:40:01 +1000 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: Grant Coady Message-ID: References: <200807291815.13907.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <488FAFE3.4040001@am.sony.com> <4890E32C.5060602@keyaccess.nl> In-Reply-To: <4890E32C.5060602@keyaccess.nl> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1934 Lines: 46 On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:54:52 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >On 30-07-08 02:30, Grant Coady wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:03:47 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >> >>> Marco Berizzi wrote: >>>> alistair@devzero.co.uk wrote: >>>> >>>>> You don't actually say whether you had CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y or not? >>>> yes console_translation is set to yes. It cannot be changed if embedded is not >>>> set. >>> If console_translation is set to yes, the behavior should be unchanged from >>> 2.6.26. Can you please send me your .config? >>> >>> Also, can you please describe what breakage you are seeing? >> >> I have the same issue, the line drawing characters are displayed as an odd >> looking C with a tail. Slackware-12.1 and Slamd64-12.1. >> >> .configs: >> http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz >> http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh64/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz >> >> CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y ?? yes it's on > >Sorry, didn't read the thread so just hoping to say something useful: > >slackware 12.1 installes by default with "vt.default_utf8=0" as a kernel >param which may be involved here. I saw that picture that someone posted >and to me that was nothing new -- my console has always looked that way >if I set my locale to a UTF8 locale but do not change the console font. I tried booting with that var set or commented out, the problem stayed. > >"LANG=C menuconfig" works for me when I can't, won't or just don't start >X with it's terminals with UTF8 fonts... I don't normally use console as I run linux boxes headless most of the time via PuTTY terminals, and they're fine. Grant. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/