Bug 183209

Summary: framebuffer module rivafb displays wrong font for umlauts on console 1 on non UTF-8 systems
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Bieringer <pb>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Peter Bieringer 2006-02-27 14:34:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
After loading the rivafb framebuffer module on an non UTF-8 system via
/etc/rc.modules German Umlauts are not displayed, instead other strange characters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable UTF-8 support:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en:de_DE:de"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

2. Create /etc/rc.modules (don't forget chmod 755):
/sbin/modprobe rivafb && i=0; while [ ! -c /dev/fb0 -a $i -le 9 ]; do sleep 1;
i=$[$i + 1 ]; done; if [ -c /dev/fb0 ]; then /usr/sbin/fbset --all 1280x1024-60
-depth 16; /usr/sbin/fbset --all -upper 34 -lower 5; fi

3. Reboot (e.g. runlevel 3)

4. Login on console 1 and console 2

5. Type German umlauts on console 1 and console 2
  
Actual results:
On console 1, German umlauts are not proper displayed, other characters instead.
On other consoles, German umlauts are proper displayed.

Expected results:
Display German umlauts also on console 1

Additional info:
Enabling UTF-8 support in i18n, the problem goes away. But unfortunately, this
system can't run with UTF-8 enabled.

Booting without autoload of frame buffer also do not show this problem.
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-09-17 02:58:06 UTC 
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs]

FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to
release security related updates for the kernel.  As this bug is not security
related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated
to FC5.

Please retest with Fedora Core 5.

Thank you.
Comment 2 Peter Bieringer 2006-09-17 12:37:30 UTC 
kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 does not show this problem.