no cyrillic letters in framebuffer console

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Known, but can't easily fix (we need jfbterm, I think).

Can't ubuntu not switch to fb console?

(In reply to comment #3)
> Can't ubuntu not switch to fb console?

Not a week before a release, no. :-) This is a planned feature for the next release.

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Can't ubuntu not switch to fb console?
>
> Not a week before a release, no. :-) This is a planned feature for the next
release.

Actually, for every locale other than Greek, we already try (this logic's
inherited from Debian):

UTF-8)
        # Enable UTF-8 in console
        case $TERMINAL in
        console)
                # In the case of Greek console support works,
                # so we can ignore loading jfbterm
                if [ $LANG != "el_GR.UTF-8" ]; then
                        try_load_fb
                        WRAPPER="/usr/bin/jfbterm"
                        WRAPPER_OPTION="-q -e"
                fi
                ;;
        esac
        ;;

I could try moving try_load_fb outside that if, I suppose.

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Can't ubuntu not switch to fb console?
> >
> > Not a week before a release, no. :-) This is a planned feature for the next
> release.
>
> Actually, for every locale other than Greek, we already try (this logic's
> inherited from Debian):

But this doesn't actually do anything unless a kernel framebuffer is configured,
right? Do we try to enable that as well, in these cases (we don't for English,
on non-powerpc)?

>
> UTF-8)
> # Enable UTF-8 in console
> case $TERMINAL in
> console)
> # In the case of Greek console support works,
> # so we can ignore loading jfbterm
> if [ $LANG != "el_GR.UTF-8" ]; then
> try_load_fb
> WRAPPER="/usr/bin/jfbterm"
> WRAPPER_OPTION="-q -e"
> fi
> ;;
> esac
> ;;
>
> I could try moving try_load_fb outside that if, I suppose.

(In reply to comment #6)
> > Actually, for every locale other than Greek, we already try (this logic's
> > inherited from Debian):
>
> But this doesn't actually do anything unless a kernel framebuffer is configured,
> right?

It tries to load vesafb/vga16fb followed by fbcon, which is just the same as
what the first stage does ... The main downside of this approach is that it
doesn't affect second and subsequent reboots, unlike having localechooser
configure console-tools, which I thought was what was supposed to happen for Greek.

In my experience it does switch to framebuffer. Displaying the characters should
be as simple as
consolechars --font=LatArCyrHeb-16
almost certainly for fb and possibly for text console.

(In reply to comment #8)
> In my experience it does switch to framebuffer. Displaying the characters should
> be as simple as
> consolechars --font=LatArCyrHeb-16
> almost certainly for fb and possibly for text console.

May be not that simple :)
~$consolechars --font=LatArCyrHeb-16
~$set_kernel_font: Invalid argument
My kernel is 2.6.12-8-686

Markus,

Does this happen with the new Dapper installer?

Thanks.

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