special chars mangled after switch to graphical console

[Thomas Gebhardt]

Binary package hint: console-setup

Special chararcters in the virtual text console display fine
(after "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup"). But when switching
to the graphical screen (ALT+F7) and back (ALT+CTRL+F1)
to the text console again, the german umlauts that previously
were displayed correctly are replaced by funny characters.
This affects both
   the text that is still on the screen from before the switch
and
  the output of all commands that are issued after the switch.

Here is my debconf setting:

$ debconf-show console-setup

* console-setup/variant: Germany
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
* console-setup/ask_detect: false
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/layoutcode: de
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
* console-setup/layout: Germany
  console-setup/detect:
  console-setup/detected:
  console-setup/variantcode:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Uni1
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
* console-setup/codeset: . Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyrillic; Hebrew; basic Arabic
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: VGA

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I think the problem here is that DO_OS_FONTRESTORE is never defined during the X server build, so the code in the X server to save and restore the console font is disabled. I suspect this was broken during X modularisation.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Daniel Stone tells me that this is supposed to be done by individual drivers because otherwise it breaks the multi-card case. Hmm.

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

I have this bug too. Up-to-date intrepid, xserver-xorg-core version is 2:1.4.99.906-2ubuntu2, 32 bit machine.

I'm using vlock on text console to lock my machine (since gnome screensaver does not work [since hardy]: usually the password check dialog just hangs after entering my password without any response, it can't unlock, but it's another bug). After using my password and witch back to X (ALT-F7) random part of my password is inserted into some application, which is quite serious issue, especially when pidgin sent my whole password to a friend ...

Please respond if you need further information. Thanks!

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

Sorry, please ignore my last comment, it's another problem (bug report #262647), I sent here by mistake.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Thomas,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[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.

[Thomas Gebhardt (th-geb)]

Hi,

> This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
> test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Just upgraded to Lucid. It works fine now!

Thanks for your effort!

Kind regards, Thomas