On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote: >> Package: src:linux >> Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I've noticed that with this kernel, "bold" does not work on my >> console. For example, running "man man" to show the man(1) manpage >> does not show headings in bold as it normally does. >> >> (It also makes installed packages look very similar to uninstalled >> packages in aptitude.) > [...] > > Works for me. Are you using a VGA text console or frame buffer console?
This bit of log seems to indicate that I'm using the framebuffer console: [ 6.207537] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 6.223863] alg: No test for crc32 (crc32-pclmul) [ 6.321572] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M [ 6.321635] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver [ 6.322117] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 [ 6.342594] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X [ 6.342602] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 6.342606] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. [ 6.342623] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem [ 6.635836] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 [ 6.636400] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11 [ 6.636425] iTCO_wdt: Found a Lynx Point TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1860) [ 6.636495] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) [ 6.706130] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 6.723634] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67 [ 6.728625] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device [ 6.728650] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier [ 6.751184] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [ 6.751354] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input8 [ 6.751436] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 > Which kernel version were you using previously? Well, I haven't had this particular machine for very long, so I don't have a "known good" version to tell you at the moment. I was kind of hoping that you were going to come back with some arcane diagnostic commands I should run at this point :-(. > Is the TERM variable set correctly on the console (should be 'linux')? Yes, it's set correctly, and the terminfo is bold=\E[1m just like console_codes(5) says it should be, and just like on my Wheezy laptop where bold actually works on the console. Oh. I found somehing interesting; "setupcon -v" tells me it's loading a "512-char" font on the box that isn't working; on the working one, it says it's loading a "256-char" font; I know that VGA text mode is fundamentally incapable of supporting both bold and 512 glyphs at the same time, but console-setup(5) implies that this limitation does not apply to the framebuffer console. Or not-so-interesting: manually selecting a smaller character set so that it loads a "256-char" font doesn't help anyway :-(. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
