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Codeblues
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: switching to utf8 font leads to text corruption |
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| When gentoo boots it seems to use the default font. When it gets to the point where it switches to utf8 and uses the terminus font, everything on screen that came before becomes unreadable as if it has the wrong encoding. Is this normal or did I set up something wrong? I followed the official gentoo guide for unicode. |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Look at your /etc/rc.conf | Code: | # Set unicode to YES to turn on unicode support for keyboards and screens.
unicode="YES" |
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Codeblues
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:01 am Post subject: |
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my /etc/rc.conf says
my /etc/conf.d/consolefont says
| Code: | | CONSOLEFONT="ter-v14b" |
Do I need to uncomment the line that says CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni"? |
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:23 am Post subject: |
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Couldn't hurt to try it.
I have | Code: | CONSOLEFONT="ter-v16n"
CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni" |
in mine. |
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Codeblues
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Doesn't work. Everything that came before switching to utf8 and the new font still gets scrambled. |
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:07 am Post subject: |
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If you used an initrd (initramfs) image with your kernel, you'll need to rebuild it before these changes will take effect to the initially displayed text. I think...  |
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Codeblues
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Where exactly do I find that out? |
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| Does your /boot/grub/grub.conf file have an "initrd" option in it after your "kernel" option? |
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Codeblues
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| No it does not. I actually have a problem loading the rescue option which has the initrd=/bin/bb kernel option. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm not sure what to do about that. |
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ABCDwp
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Codeblues wrote: | | I actually have a problem loading the rescue option which has the initrd=/bin/bb kernel option. |
That line should actually be "... init=/bin/bb", which tells the kernel to run /bin/bb (a very minimal shell) instead of /sbin/init. |
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Codeblues
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| ABCDwp wrote: | | Codeblues wrote: | | I actually have a problem loading the rescue option which has the initrd=/bin/bb kernel option. |
That line should actually be "... init=/bin/bb", which tells the kernel to run /bin/bb (a very minimal shell) instead of /sbin/init. |
Sorry, that's what I meant, init=/bin/bb |
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peteblack
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| I've had the same problem as described by Codeblues for a while, but never got around to fixing it. If I use an initrd will that take care of it? |
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