Frans Pop wrote: > For my Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop, I have tried installations with both 2.4 > and 2.6 kernels. > > If I install with 'linux26' and select the 2.6.5 kernel during base > installation and reboot, all borders and lines are shown as the OE character > ('O' and 'E' combined) for all base configuration dialogs, debconf dialogs > and also for dselect. > During 1st stage installation the dialogs are shown correctly. > > With a 2.4 based install, the dialogs are also correct after the reboot for > base configuration. This bug was introduced with the following change in version 2.23 of base-config: * Kenshi Muto - Load fbcon.ko for Linux 2.6 framebuffer. Closes: #247238 If we cannot figure out what's wrong, I suppose I can back out that change. :-( Kenshi? > It looks like this is framebuffer or maybe /etc/console-screen.sh related. > > If I manually load the vga16fb and fbcon modules, the dialogs are shown > correctly. This makes no sense to me, those are the same modules that base-config loads. -- see shy jo
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