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

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

On 10/2/06, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:
> 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 ז,ר,ו 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?

These are attached.

> Also we must determine whether only the keyboard can not produce ז,ר,ו
> 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.

I get the same wrong characters whether I type them or cat them from
/tmp/danishtest

To be precise, the characters actually written to screen are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C (lowercase)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%B0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma (lowercase)

> 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.

This writes the same wrong characters.

> 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

I tried the tests in a console, after X started and I switched to the
console. Please say if I should try them inside a boot which does not
start X.

Regards, Thue
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