On Thursday 29 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: > > No, this has nothing to do with dead keys or characters composed by > > typing an accent and then the letter. The german umlauts öäüß are > > own characters as oau. There are lower case and upper case forms of > > them, while the upper case are created with the normal shift key. > > See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Qwertz_de.svg > > > > In VT2 all keys work correctly. > > OK. I have just confirmed the regression. > As VT2 is correct, it is unlikely that this is an issue in the keymap, > although that should be checked for changes. > > Most likely the regression is in either cairo or directfb, but > reassigning to cdebconf until we can trace it more exactly. I've just, with the help of snapshot.d.n, traced this regression to the switch from the 2.6.22-3 kernel to the 2.6.24-1 kernel. This can be easily reproduced by anyone by creating a sources.list.udeb.local with the following line in it: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2008/03/25/debian sid main And then building netboot-gtk images using both kernels by updating config/i386.cfg (see below for minor additional changes needed). Udebs for both kernels are available on that day, which also means there are absolutely no other changes. Although the direct cause is the switch to 2.6.24, I would think that the actual problem is likely to be in directfb which apparently does not work with whatever changed in the kernel. I'll see if I can identify likely changes in the kernel, either the kernel config or functionality. Cheers, FJP Additional changes needed in config dir to avoid build errors: --- config/common (revision 53810) +++ config/common (working copy) @@ -86,4 +86,4 @@ # All images that include cdebconf should include symbols needed by these # plugins. -EXTRAUDEBS=cdebconf-newt-entropy cdebconf-text-entropy +EXTRAUDEBS=cdebconf-newt-entropy --- config/i386/netboot-gtk.cfg (revision 53810) +++ config/i386/netboot-gtk.cfg (working copy) @@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ # All images that include cdebconf should include symbols needed by these # plugins. -EXTRAUDEBS += cdebconf-gtk-entropy +#EXTRAUDEBS += cdebconf-gtk-entropy
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