Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > The trouble with using bterm is that it requires everything to be in > UTF-8. At the moment at least, this isn't typically the case for latin > languages. In the closed world of dbootstrap it's no problem to recode > all the strings w

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-21 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 04:54, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I don't think we have a Japanese-capable terminal emulator running on > boot, do we? No. I think we would have to arrange that Japanese locales get a copy of kon2 installed and run base-config inside it. The trouble with using bterm is that i

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On 20 Jan 2002 18:11:13 + Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an impression that it will be a disaster on most > > Japanese setups. > > Yes, that's what I suspected. However, I don't really know what the > best thing to do about it is. I don't think we have a Japanese-

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:56:29PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > But after the reboot, debconf is in english (and not in german). Debconf > > have already translated messages and it support this on a normal system. > > > > This english text is a bug. Maybe a unset LANG, maybe a LANG with a > >

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 12:07, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I've got an impression that it will be a disaster on most > Japanese setups. Yes, that's what I suspected. However, I don't really know what the best thing to do about it is. One option would be to make sure that "locales" is installed as pa

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Michael Bramer wrote on Sun Jan 20, 2002 um 01:23:46AM: > IMHO this is a Bug in boot-floopys. No, it is a bug in base-config. We did already discuss this on IRC - dbootstrap stores the used language value, it is base-config's job to use it. > But after the reboot, debconf is in engli

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Yes, it's a bug. The problem was in communiating the LANG variable from > dbootstrap to base-config. I think it should be fixed already in the > development sources; try 3.0.19 when that is released. > > I'm not quite sure what the e

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-20 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 00:23, Michael Bramer wrote: > This english text is a bug. Maybe a unset LANG, maybe a LANG with a > wrong value or a missing lib etc. Yes, it's a bug. The problem was in communiating the LANG variable from dbootstrap to base-config. I think it should be fixed already in t

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-19 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:56:01PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Since base-config currently does not make any use of the language > (correct me if I am wrong), is there anything speaking against it? IMHO this is a Bug in boot-floopys. I test today a woody CD. Nice work. I can choose some kernel

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-12 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:20:15PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Look, vga16 fb driver is built-in into the kernels of our i18n > flavors and loads automaticaly. The user is not able to use another > framebuffer driver from module, not without specifying the > video=vga16:off parameter to prevent t

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Blundell wrote on Sat Jan 12, 2002 um 05:32:40PM: > > Since base-config currently does not make any use of the language > > (correct me if I am wrong), is there anything speaking against it? > > Sorry, I don't really understand what you're saying. > > Can you be more concrete ab

Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-12 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 15:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > IMHO we should disable the vga16 framebuffer in the default > configuration if the user choosed a latin1 language. Reason: you cannot > unload this driver at runtime, so you cannot load another one, for > example an accelerated driver for Matrox.

Disabling vga16 in the boot config

2002-01-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, IMHO we should disable the vga16 framebuffer in the default configuration if the user choosed a latin1 language. Reason: you cannot unload this driver at runtime, so you cannot load another one, for example an accelerated driver for Matrox. Since base-config currently does not make any use