On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:09:19PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) said:
> > > Gibberish is still printed while Anaconda is loading.
> >
> > Yeah, this is the "the kernel oopsed, the output gets mangled with the
> > way that newt sets up the terminal"
>
> This has been bugging me for a while. Anyone know if there's a byte
> sequence for 'end of unicode , reset terminal' that we could
> print before the kernel starts dumping output?
... but, the vt is normally in unicode when the kernel oopses, without issues.
Does newt/slang set it to a *different* mode?
What I think is happening is the kernel is trying to output text
in the middle of a multi-byte unicode sequence, resulting in garbage.
Dave
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