[Debian-eeepc-devel] console bug on 901?

Glenn Saberton gsaberton at foomagic.org
Sat Oct 4 04:38:29 UTC 2008


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Wulf Hofbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing intermittent problems with the Linux console. Symptoms
> are garbled font/character generator tables on the text console (can be
> fixed using consolechars). On other occasions, the cursor keys become
> inoperative on the console (they keep working fine under X).
I think this might be a kernel bug. Iirc, if you hit the insert key, it
should get your cursor keys working again. Pretty sure this is fixed in
2.6.26-7

Glenn
> 
> I'm not sure if the problem is with the console itself or with the X
> server not properly restoring the console state on a switch.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour ?
> 
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