Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:11:21 +0000 | From | Michel Catudal <> | Subject | Re: Accents bug in kernel 2.2.0pre5 |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > > root <bbcat@netonecom.net> said: > > Actually this bug has existed for a long long time on the kernel > > 2.1.xxx and somehow seems to have been forgotten. > > > > What happens is that we can no longer see the characters correctly > > in the console mode. From a terminal shell on X it works but not > > in a console mode. > > And yes the locale ISO-8859-1 as well as codepages 850 and 863 are > > compiled in the kernel, same as I did for 2.0.36 where it works. > > Never seen anything like that here? 2.2.0pre6, and I've got all the > codepages as modules, currently loaded are: > > [root@sleipnir perl5.005_54]# lsmod > Module Size Used by > nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) > nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) > vfat 12892 1 (autoclean) > fat 23584 1 (autoclean) [vfat] > > I see accented (and other assorted Latin-1) characters fine on the > console. Spanish keyboard, loadkeys 0.96. > --
I use the Aptiva CA keyboard, I prefered my CF keyboard but it died and I live a long way from Québec. It seems just as cold though (-20C tonight)
This one uses the 850 and 863 codepages under OS/2 I compiled both into the kernel to get support for it. Since I added modutils-2.1.121.i386.rpm I can no longer load modules either in the 2.0.36 or this kernel. I couldn't at all under the newer kernels before so it now the same across the board. Joke aside, it gives me :undefined symbol : __bzero in depmod and insmod
This rpm program is buggy as was util-linux-2.9-5.i386.rpm which I had to reinstall RedHat after upgrading to it. At least this one wasn't as destructive. I learned that you don't override rpm's about a library even when you know that you have it when it is a vital part of the system. I still haven't figured that one out. All I know is that the system was dead on reboot, it kept asking for the login, a dead system. Live and learn ...
To get back to the original problem, I got it fixed with a patch that I found on an Italian newsgroup. I looked for hours, it's lucky that I can read Italian.
I would like to thank Davide Manzoni for the idea.
The patch is this one in case someone has the same problem (which I put in /etc/profile)
UNIMAP=iso01.uni export UNIMAP
Davide uses cp437.uni but I don't It works with iso01.uni. Youpi!! As I saw in the kernel source it defaults to some crappy anglo codepage if it doesn't find it's environment variable.
Now if I could get modules to load ...
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