Bug#224226: reverted the framebuffer thing
Hi,
At Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:21:08 -0500,
Joey Hess wrote:
> I've had to reopen this bug report, because the framebuffer change
> caused problems, and had to be reverted.
>
> <pere> joeyh: something is adding vga16fb to etc/modules, and this change the console charset from ISO-8859-1 to something else.
> <joeyh> pere: someone (forget who) added that as part of trying to get japanese working on the second stage
> <pere> joeyh: hm, ok
> <pere> joeyh: do you remember where this is done?
> <joeyh> probably prebaseconfig
> <joeyh> - Add /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/51framebuffer-module-linux-i386
> <joeyh> (Bug#224226).
That's really bad news.
This revert damages second stage for non-Latin users.
How about 51framebuffer-module-linux-i386 checks LANG also?
A. use fb for all except of some LANG
B. use fb for some LANG
I prefer A.
Or more drastic, how about using bterm (or jfbterm) for all languages
on second stage?
--
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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