Re: non-i18n'd arches
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:34, Richard Hirst wrote:
> So, for vme, there will be no frame buffer support in the kernel. Does
> having lang chooser turned on then present a problem, or will it just
> drop back to something sensible?
It'll fall back to an English installation. Serial console is supported
on i386 too. The only time you wouldn't want to turn LANG_CHOOSER on
would be on architectures that don't ever support framebuffer.
> For ia64 and hppa, there will be frame buffer support in the kernel, but
> (for hppa, anyway) it might not support the particular h/w. Also the
> install might be done via serial console. Will lang chooser drop back
> to something sensible in those cases too?
Yup. Again, the "hardware doesn't support fbcon" situation applies to
i386 too, depending on your particular video card.
p.
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