Bug#389963: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#389963: console-setup: Screen size is wrong

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:55:45PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> 
> By the way, there is another bug. Even though I have rebooted after
> running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, after switching to a console
> from X, the charset is not set correctly. that is, the chars æ,ø,å are
> not typed correctly until after I have run setupcon.

You must be sure that this can be fixed so let us try to find where
the problem comes from. :-)

One possible source of problems is the disagreement between
console-setup and the active locale.  Could you run on the console the
command

   locale >/tmp/locale.out

and then send to me the contents of the files /tmp/locale.out and
/etc/default/console-setup?

Also we must determine whether only the keyboard can not produce æ,ø,å
or the font is also broken with respect to these characters.  In order
to check this create in X Window some short file that contains these
characters (say /tmp/danishtest).  Then go to the console and type

   cat /tmp/danishtest

Now, can you see the Danish letters?  If you can see them but you can
not type them then the font must be OK.

If the font is OK, but you can not type these letters, run the command

   cat >/dev/null

Now try again to type the Danish letters.  If you can type them then
the keyboard is also OK and the problem comes from the command
interpreter.

Try these tests while your system is in clean state, i.e. you've just
rebooted and you have not used setupcon yet.

Anton Zinoviev