Re: [Devel] A slight problem with i810

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[Aigars Mahinovs]
> Translating and forwarding a bugreport from one Latvian teacher: He
> had a problem with a PC with Intel 810 chipset. X would not start
> up.  The solution was to replace VideoRam 1024 to VideoRam 4096 in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. It worked flawlessly after that.

Strange.  The related packages are xfree86-common and
xdebconfigurator.  I do not know what might be wrong.  I suspect the
ram setting was probed, but not sure if it was probed by xfree86 or
one of the HW detection packages used by xdebconfigurator.

> The other problem is that if Latvian language is selected upon
> instalation, KDM shows up with a wrong font (question marks instead
> of chars). How and where should we look to fix that problem?

This is a known bug in kdm from KDE 2.2.2.  We know no way to specify
which charset to use in kdm, so if the character is missing from
ISO-8859-1, only a question mark shows up.  This is reported to
bugzilla as <URL:http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=233>
(sorry, it is in norwegian).  If you find a way to change the charset
of kdm 2.2.2, we are interested.

The problem might be solved when KDE 3.x stabilises in sid/sarge, and
we can upgrade to this version.  The problem is claimed to be fixed in
newer versions of kde.