Some Spanish chars doesn't look well in console when using nVidia closed-source Xorg video drivers

[Ricardo Pérez López]

When you go into console mode (typing Ctrl-Alt-F1, for example), some chars looks like garbage.

The characters which looks bad in console mode are:

- í (Spanish accented i)
- ó (Spanish accented o)
- ú (Spanish accented u)
- ñ (Spanish n with tilde)

I attach a screen capture to illustrate the problem.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

As you can see (sorry for the bad image quality), there are some characters that looks like "garbage".

In the screen, I just typed:

áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ ñÑ

but it looks like:

áé*** ÁÉÍÓÚ *Ñ

where * indicates a "garbage-look" character.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

This is the same screen capture, taken closer.

[Michael Broadbent (mikebro)]

I was unable to reproduce this bug on Dapper. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Could you give a more detailed procedure of how you created this bug so it can be reproduced easier?

Thank you for your bug report.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

As you say, this bug is not in Dapper. The bug appears in Edgy (I don't know if it's in Feisty, too).

Sorry for the lack of information.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Sort of workaround:
--------------------------

If I run the following command into the console:

sudo /etc/init.d/console-setup start

then all the characters appears perfectly, although the problematic chars appears in light white color (but obviously this last issue is a minor one).

However, when I go into X-Window and then press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go into the console, the characters appears ugly again.

It seems that the X-Window driver doesn't works well with the console.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

I just realized that the problem only appears when I use the closed-source binary-only nVidia "nvidia" video drivers. When I use the open source "nv" driver, the problem doesn't appear.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Ricardo:
Does this still happen with the NVIDIA drivers in Feisty? Have you turned RenderAccel on in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Yes: the problem is still here in Feisty, and I have not RenderAccel enabled in xorg.conf. I attach the xorg.conf file. Hope this helps.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Setting back to unconfirmed and punting -> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Ricardo:
What happens if you explicitly disable RenderAccel as mentioned on:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-d.html
?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I cannot reproduce this symptom in fully updated 8.04.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Sitsofe:
I've tried disabling RenderAccel in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, without luck. The problem is still here in my fully updated 8.04.1.

Actually, the problem is worse now than before: I can't type any accented key in the console. When I press the accent key (') and then press any vocal, the screen remains muted. The console don't realize that I've just pressed the keys.

However, there are many text applications translated into Spanish which shows accented vocals, and these accented vocals are shown as garbage yet.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This package has become obsolete so we're closing out the bug report as WONTFIX.
Thanks for reporting it though!

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

The problem were solved from Intrepid using nvidia-glx-177 package. However, it appears again when you use nvidia-glx-180 package :(.

[Javier García Díaz (jgd)]

I can confirm this same problem too.

Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64)
kernel 2.6.29-9
nvidia 180.11

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

I can confirm this bug on KUbuntu Intrepid Ibex with nvidia 180 driver

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44.

This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your
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[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Unfortunately, the bug is still reproducible with nvidia-glx 180.44 driver :(.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.