[Bug 144085] master

[OpenContrail Admin]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 130444 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130444

Review in progress for https://review.opencontrail.org/9558 
Submitter: Ranjeet R (rranjeet at juniper.net)

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Title:
  Charset is not set correctly in VGA text-mode

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The charset (and special characters) are not displayed correctly in
  VGA text-mode while usplash is running. There was a bug report #21567
  in which Michael Vogt already described the problem.:

  'The kernel just refuses it in drivers/char/vt.c:con_font_set(). But that seems 
   to be because the vga text-mode uses parts of it's video memory to store the 
   fontmap. That can't work when in graphic mode obviously. I don't know why the 
   kernel doesn't store the fontmap for the next switch to text-mode. It looks like 
   it keeps a copy in kernel memory anyway' 

  This bug still exists in Feisty. As the vga text-mode is currently
  still the default mode in Ubuntu, it should affect nearly everybody
  until he/she changes the console screen mode.

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