I'm using Slackware 13.1.
Whenever I logout of KDE and go back into console mode, the characters at the console screen become unreadable gibberish. Is anyone else having this problem?
I can ctl+alt+F? to work at another console screen, but the ctl+alt+F1 screen remains unreadable until I reboot.
I'm getting a weird charset problem in a chroot'ed system that I kexec'ed into. It is especially noticeable in ncurses programs like aptitude, but it also noticeable in vim. [URL] My locales are configured to en_US.UTF-8, I have choosen my keyboard layout with kbd-config while in the chroot before kexec'ing into it, I've passed the bootkbd= parameter to the kexec'ed kernel, and my TERM variable is set to "linux". I can't try xterm because this chroot system doesn't has X.
EDIT: I just noticed that the keyboard layout I selected is not working properly. All keys work fine except the ones that are specific to my country. Instead of ç I get a weird symbol.
After updating my Slackware-Current (there was kernel and glibc package updates), I just get a black screen with a blinking "_" in the top-left corner when I logout.
I checked /var/log/kdm.log and found these errors:
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I've found a workaround: uncommenting "TerminateServer=true" in kdmrc.
I'm trying to run Slackware 13.37 64-bit in a VirtualBox virtual machine. My VirtualBox version is 3.2.12. I had to disable compositing to keep the X-Server from reporting a segfault.Now the problem is that on logout from KDE I get a completely black screen. I can switch to a console session and type commands to get the login screen again.
telinit 3
telinit 4
I tried editing "kdmrc" to add the line "TerminateServer=true" but it had no effect on the problem.I had this working with Slackware 13.1 at one time, but I can't seem to get it working properly now even without desktop effects.I'm trying to avoid changing my VirtualBox software since each version seems to just introduce new and different bugs. The 4.X versions are not yet very stable.
I did install FC 11 without problems. The only thing I don't understand is the following.
Viewing some messages, the character apostrophe'is not displayed.Charset is "iso-8859-1" which is the default in my Evolution as well...
Subject:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?SURCOUF_:_Votre_commande_N=B0__6323352_-_Mise_=E0_disposit?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?ion_de_facture?=
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:14:24 +0200
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Checking the source of the message I can read at some place :
Le Sp=E9cialiste de l=92 Informatique=0A=
what is displayed without apostrophe as =92 is shown as a blank square (not printable character) On the other side I see the following source in same message :
t=E9l=E9charger directement et gratuitement sur le site de l'=E9diteur =0A=
what is displayed with the apostrophe: I don't know why the character apostrophe is sent as =92 This did not happen within FC 10 or the earlier Evolution
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Heres the locale settings:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
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Unfortunately I dont know how to find the font settings.
I have done 3 clean installs for this problem and it remains, i don't want to do it from the terminal..(Buttons exists but they won't work...)
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PS: the distro is Jaunty and I used the debs at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-mainline/:
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linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
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Package configuration:
When it happens it looks like there is a selection of options I cannot read, one of which is highlighted, for which I am expected to choose one of. In the above example "+ee-_c¦--e++" was the highlighted option in the list.
How is this fixed to be made readable every time?
When I invoke aptitude without any arguments the screen is readable and looks just like it should.
The SSH window is displayed by my local Windows XP. The remote OS is Debian 5.
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I can still use my keyboard, but the screen is unreadable. I was trying install with DVD/Netinst ISO with USBWriter, but it still same. My laptop use ATI 8750M Graphic Card.
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Any suggestions on how to proceed?
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