Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I've noticed that with this kernel, "bold" does not work on my
>> console. For example, running "man man" to show the man(1) manpage
>> does not show headings in bold as it normally does.
>>
>> (It also makes installed packages look very similar to uninstalled
>> packages in aptitude.)
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> Works for me. Are you using a VGA text console or frame buffer console?
This bit of log seems to indicate that I'm using the framebuffer console:
[ 6.207537] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 6.223863] alg: No test for crc32 (crc32-pclmul)
[ 6.321572] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M
[ 6.321635] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[ 6.322117] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[ 6.342594] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 6.342602] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 6.342606] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 6.342623] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[ 6.635836] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 6.636400] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11
[ 6.636425] iTCO_wdt: Found a Lynx Point TCO device (Version=2,
TCOBASE=0x1860)
[ 6.636495] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 6.706130] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 6.723634] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[ 6.728625] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 6.728650] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[ 6.751184] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 6.751354] input: Video Bus as
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input8
[ 6.751436] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
> Which kernel version were you using previously?
Well, I haven't had this particular machine for very long, so I don't
have a "known good" version to tell you at the moment. I was kind of
hoping that you were going to come back with some arcane diagnostic
commands I should run at this point :-(.
> Is the TERM variable set correctly on the console (should be 'linux')?
Yes, it's set correctly, and the terminfo is bold=\E[1m just like
console_codes(5) says it should be, and just like on my Wheezy laptop
where bold actually works on the console.
Oh. I found somehing interesting; "setupcon -v" tells me it's loading
a "512-char" font on the box that isn't working; on the working one,
it says it's loading a "256-char" font; I know that VGA text mode is
fundamentally incapable of supporting both bold and 512 glyphs at the
same time, but console-setup(5) implies that this limitation does not
apply to the framebuffer console.
Or not-so-interesting: manually selecting a smaller character set so
that it loads a "256-char" font doesn't help anyway :-(.
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