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Bug#561008: marked as done (xserver-xorg-video-intel: console changes setup after X is started)

Your message dated Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:33:50 +0200
with message-id <20100418153350.GA10082@patate.is-a-geek.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#561008: console-setup: approximations for 'toilet -f future' symbols look different before and after X
has caused the Debian Bug report #561008,
regarding xserver-xorg-video-intel: console changes setup after X is started
to be marked as done.

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Package: console-setup
Version: 1.50
Severity: normal

Hi (again)!

During the discussions for bug #546983, console-setup was greatly
improved by Anton Zinoviev (which I would like to thank again):
the console is now able to display 'toilet -f future' symbols in a
strange, yet charming way, by using "approximations".
All "standard" fonts (Fixed, Terminus, TerminusBold, TerminusBoldVGA, VGA)
are able to perform this magic.
I chose TerminusBoldVGA, as shown below in the debconf settings section.

This is really great.

I noticed an awkward behavior, though.

As soon as the box has finished booting, I login on the console and
I see the output of, e.g.:

  $ toilet -f future hello
  ╻ ╻┏━╸╻  ╻  ┏━┓
  ┣━┫┣╸ ┃  ┃  ┃ ┃
  ╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸┗━╸┗━┛

displayed correctly.
I mean, the letters don't have the same height, but that's OK (it even
somehow enhance the futuristic look of this toilet font!), but each letter
is displayed with lines that join perfectly and form a continuous gliph.

OK, after that, I start an X session:

  $ startx & logout

If I switch back to the console (by pressing [Ctrl+Alt+F1]) and I login
again, then the output of

  $ toilet -f future hello
  ╻ ╻┏━╸╻  ╻  ┏━┓
  ┣━┫┣╸ ┃  ┃  ┃ ┃
  ╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸┗━╸┗━┛

looks different!
I mean, each letter is displayed with lines that fail to join perfectly
and thus form a discontinous gliph (as if made of "broken" pieces).
This is less nice than before, but the point is: why does it look
different?!?

I hope this little flaw is easy to fix...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.30-2     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
ii  keyboard-configuration        1.50       system-wide keyboard preferences
ii  xkb-data                      1.7-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
* console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBoldVGA
* console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16

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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 00:16:27 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:

> Important update: after the upgrades I performed on last Sunday, the
> behavior of my box significantly changed.
> From last Monday on, during each boot, the screen briefly blanks and
> the console resolution is switched to the LCD monitor's optimal one
> (1280x1024, in my case).  I suspect that the console is switched to a
> framebuffer one.
> After that, I no longer have any problems with 'toilet -f future'
> symbols, before or after running X.
> 
> This is great, except that I would like to have a console with the
> default resolution (the one I get during and just after the POST,
> 640x480, I think).

Correct, you get a fb provided by the i915 kms driver.

> I never said I wanted a 1280x1024 console!
> 
> 
> Which packages were upgraded on my box on last Sunday?
> 
> [UPGRADE] e2fslibs 1.41.9-1 -> 1.41.10-1
> [UPGRADE] e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1 -> 1.41.10-1
> [UPGRADE] libblas3gf 1.2-2 -> 1.2-3
> [UPGRADE] libcomerr2 1.41.9-1 -> 1.41.10-1
> [UPGRADE] libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl 2.021-1 -> 2.024-1
> [UPGRADE] libss2 1.41.9-1 -> 1.41.10-1
> [UPGRADE] libtiff4 3.9.2-2 -> 3.9.2-3+b1
> [UPGRADE] procps 1:3.2.8-2 -> 1:3.2.8-7
> [UPGRADE] propaganda-debian 13.5.5 -> 13.5.6
> [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 150-2 -> 151-2
> [UPGRADE] libudev0 150-2 -> 151-2
> [UPGRADE] udev 150-2 -> 151-2
> 
> The first suspect is udev...
> It is probably the cause of the behavior change.
> 
> 
> OK, so now the problem is: if what I said above is correct and I am
> really using a framebuffer console, I may be OK with it, but... how can
> I prevent it from changing the resolution during the boot sequence?
> 
You can blacklist the i915 module.  But then you have to use the vesa X
driver, because the accelerated intel driver relies on kms.

> I would like to have 640x480 (i.e.: the default resolution during POST,
> GRUB, and just at the beginning of the boot sequence) for the console
> and, of course, leave 1280x1024 (the LCD monitor's optimal resolution)
> for X.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks for your time!
> 
Closing as fixed.

Cheers,
Julien

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