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[debian-devel:11829] Bcc: Re: [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.



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Hi.

In article <20000302101925.B617@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
  at Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:19:25 -0700,
    on Re: [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.,
 Erik Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The right fix is to enable busybox's "chvt" command, and then 
> replace the dbootstrap entry in /etc/inittab with a script
> the does something like:
> 
>     #!/bin/ash
> 
>     $(eval echo `/usr/bin/tty` | grep -q ttyS) 
>     if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
> 	    dbootstrap
> 	    exit 0;
>     else
> 	    chvt 2
> 	    chvt 1
> 	    dbootstrap
>     fi;
> 
> Does everybody agree?  Shall we make this change (and revert
> the chvt stuff in busybox init)?

I like this idea (invoke dbootstrap from a shell script).
Anyway, we require this approach to enable the use of a user space
terminal program (jfbterm) to display Japanese characters for 
our custom boot-floppies with Japanese support.

# Korean, Chinese, or utf-8 support in future, may require
# some similar way of works.

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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