* Christian Perrier [2004-06-29 14:13:07+0200] > Quoting Karl Hegbloom (hegbloom@pdx.edu): > > > It's the sarge netinst snapshot from 2004/06/28, US English. > > > > > Which kernel ? 2.4 or 2.6 ? > > > > 2.6. I notice that the d-i CD uses 2.6.5, but the base-installer put in > > 2.6.6-1-386. > > Uh.... > > My last test in such conditions (sarge_d-i, 2.6, en_US) was OK. This > was with the 20040623 sarge_di image. > > sid_d-i image do *not* have these display problems but I thought we > have dealt with it in sarge_d-i. Sadly speaking, I was able to reproduce (and fixed) this bug again. Here is the exact test info: Environment: VmWare Platform: i386 Kernel: 2.6.6 Locale: en_US Image: sarge_netinst Date: 2004/06/28 Also note that there was no such problem with the 2.4 kernel (which probably explains why we've overlooked this issue). I strongly guess that this bug will be resolved with the new framebuffer fixes of 2.6.7, but we shouldn't rely on it and always _explicitly_ switch the consolefont upon invoking the termwrap for safety. Please apply the attached patch and test it. I've tested it with both kernels. It fixes the problem with kernel 2.6 and doesn't produce any side-effect with kernel 2.4. I feel guilty that I've missed this issue by not checking the new state of base-config after the r1065 commit :-( Regards, -- roktas
diff -ruN base-config.orig/debian/changelog base-config/debian/changelog
--- base-config.orig/debian/changelog 2004-06-29 03:09:01.000000000 +0300
+++ base-config/debian/changelog 2004-06-29 16:59:25.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-base-config (2.33) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+base-config (2.33) unstable; urgency=high
+ * Recai Oktas
+ - Fix the revisited line drawing problem with the kernel 2.6 which
+ deserves a high urgency. Closes: #256766
* Joey Hess
- Correct inverted logic in debconf-seed. Closes: #256078
Thanks, Martin Orr
diff -ruN base-config.orig/termwrap base-config/termwrap
--- base-config.orig/termwrap 2004-06-26 13:53:48.000000000 +0300
+++ base-config/termwrap 2004-06-29 16:40:12.000000000 +0300
@@ -254,10 +254,13 @@
unset LANG
unset LOCALE
unset ENCODING
+
+ # Linux console sucks, always load ISO-8859-1 charset mapping
+ try_load_charset "C" iso01 lat0-sun16
;;
ISO-8859-1)
- # Supported by Linux console and xterm by default
- :
+ # Linux console sucks, always load ISO-8859-1 charset mapping
+ try_load_charset "$ENCODING" iso01 lat0-sun16
;;
ISO-8859-2)
# Load ISO-8859-2 charset mapping into console
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