[arch-general] KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:53, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 13:41, didier gaumet
> <didier.gaumet at libertysurf.fr> wrote:
>> KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am presently using an up-to-date Archlinux on a laptop with an Intel
>> 915 chipset.
>> In the past I have tried KMS succesfully to a certain extent: for
>> example the french letter "é" is not correctly displayed when I type it
>> in console althought it is correctly displayed under X11. Apart from
>> this, all seems to function perfectly.
>> With the same setup in /etc/rc.conf there is no problem to type and
>> display "é" in console if KMS is disabled.
>>
>> I was thinking this to be a lack of maturity of KMS, but I just tried
>> KMS on a Slackware 13.0 (2.6.29 stock kernel) freshly installed on the
>> same laptop: definitely no problem.
>>

> I don't know why accentuated chars don't work with KMS for you,
> but I have a similar setup at my laptop (which is 2km away now),
> so I will check if plain-text console is not broken with KMS for me too.

Checked it on my laptop now.
Cyrillic chars work fine on tty with KMS enabled.
LOCALE="uk_UA.UTF-8"
KEYMAP="ua-utf"
CONSOLEFONT=cyr-sun16
CONSOLEMAP=

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)