On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:35:57PM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote: > > * During the instalation, we have correct font only on the first tty > (the installer itself). If I switch to the shell on the second > console, most of the accented letters are prited as boxes instead. > After the install, all six ttys are correctly initialized with the > proper font.
This is expected because the installer doesn't have setfont utility (but if the d-i team decides to put there setfont, then no change in console-setup is required in order to make all consoles configured). > * With the previous setup, when selecting Czech keyboard, it still > defaulted to English layout and only by pressing some magic key > (IIRC Scroll Lock), it switched to the Czech one. > Now we have Czech layout by default (this can probably be seen as > an improvement by most of the users), but I found no way to switch > back to the English layout (and eventualy back to Czech). > I know how to do that after the installation (by editing the XKB* > options in /etc/default/console-setup), but it would be nice if we > were able to preset these options even for the installation. It is possible to make this, however the same setup will be used by X too and this will be unexpected by the users. It is possible to preseed such configuration by giving the value of XKBLAYOUT to console-setup/layoutcode and the value of XKBVARIANT to console-setup/variantcode. > some letters need to be written using so called 'dead > key' (for Czech it is '=' key on the English keyboards) and these > do not work. E.g. 'ť' does not have its own key, so we need to > write that as 'Shift+=' (this does not produce any character yet) > followed by 't' -> 'ť' should appear. Instead of the expected > result, two-character sequence appears:'^t'. There is a difference between the layout in console-data and XKB. In the console keymap of console-data Shift+= produces dead_circumflex. In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/cz (and consequently in console-setup too) Shift+= produces dead_caron. As far as I know the Chezch alphabet contains letters with caron so the X layout must be correct and the console layout used circumflex instead of caron because dead_caron is not properly supported by the kernel. If this is so, you can fill a bug report agains the kernel. I hope this bug will be easy to fix - only an addition to some table. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
