Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 15 septembre 2008 16:07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
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> On Monday, 15 September 2008 at 14:26, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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>> Le Lun 15 septembre 2008 14:04, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a
>> écrit :

>> > That doesn't mean you have to disable the text mode console.
>>
>> Do you volunteer for maintening all the stuff text mode console
>> relies
>> on (fonts, layout definitions, etc)?
>
> Please point me to what needs maintaining and I'll see if I can get
> one of my colleagues to handle that.

The whole console layout database needs to be re-synched with the xorg
one (People have stopped submitting patches to kbd every time they fix
an xkeyboard-config bug. After several years of such the disconnect is
getting huge).

The whole console font set needs to be dumped and the console taught
to use generic truetype/opentype fonts (likewise, bugs are fixed in
modern fonts but not legacy console fonts, plus legacy fonts are
limited to 256 glyphs so each time someone gets to add a glyph for a
language he breaks another one. A year ago I've asked volunteers to
look at console fonts. So far no one answered).

For some reason switching to the console displays an @ nowadays login
does not work as a result right now.

Can't login, broken display and buggy keyboard layouts. I don't see
how the situation could be worse (but I'm sure next month rawhide will
show me).

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Nicolas Mailhot