Hi, Well, things are getting clear. I was able to figure out why this bug appeared in sarge images, but not in sid. As you may recall, I fixed a problem in languagechooser/prebaseconfig regarding the console font ACMs: #250376. (See the threads of the bug report for details.) The new framebuffer code of kernel 2.6 is simply confused by setting the SCREEN_FONT_MAP as is the case for languagechooser < 1.23, while the kernel 2.4 is not effected. I'm not sure which one should be the correct and expected behaviour, but I guess kernel 2.6 sucks. That's why I said that this issue might have been fixed in kernel 2.6.7, and however we shouldn't rely on the fixes outside of termwrap, i.e. languagechooser and kernel 2.6.7 and we should always set the appropriate consolefont in termwrap, hence my patch... By applying the following changes in /etc/console-tools/config (without touching the termwrap), I've confirmed that this bug will be resolved with the new languagechooser (>= 1.23), because it doesn't set the SCREEN_FONT_MAP and instead, it sets the APP_CHARSET_MAP: #SCREEN_FONT_MAP=iso15 APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso15 (This change should be made when we enter the base-config, and we should reboot after saving the /etc/console-tools/config. In the next run, you should observe that the line drawing problem disappears.) So, as the result of this investigation, regarding the release schedule of tc2, if we wouldn't want to wait for the fixed base-config (2.33), we would rather prefer to accept the new language-chooser in testing. As I said before, the new language-chooser (>=1.23) will already _fix_ this bug. Regards, -- roktas
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