Newbie: Fedora Core 3: japanese folders not showing right

inu_maru · 12-15-2004, 07:17 AM

I apologize for my first post being a question... googled anything I could to solve this mess by myself, and failed miserably.

Ok... I made a fresh install of Fedora Core 3 on my Dell Inspiron 1100 last week, already fixed most of the mp3, video issues, not a big deal here. The thing is that, after mounting the vfat partitions, all the folders and files named in japanese appear awfully garbled 【文字化け】

My fstab looks like this:

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/Xp vfat defaults,codepage=932,iocharset=cp932,uid=500 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/vault vfat defaults,codepage=932,iocharset=cp932,uid=500 0 0

/dev/hda                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Other stuff to fix...
ACPI
Blank screen instead of screensaver showing
Japanese Input while using english as the main language...

Thanks in advance.

bavarian · 12-16-2004, 03:30 AM

hi,

no need to apologize for questions--that's what forums are for!

first, are you sure you added japanese language support during installation? my suggestion: try to achieve japanese language support both for linux and for windows. i assume you're using a japanese windows version, and the english issue of fedora?

second, concerning acpi: during installation you should have had the opportunity to do a laptop installation. did you choose this option? acpi support should be working

best,
bavarian

inu_maru · 12-16-2004, 08:27 AM

Thanks for the quick reply

The vfat partitions are the ones I'm using with a japanese WinXp Home Edition. As for fedora, I added english, spanish and japanese support. Right now I logged in with japanese language. I can create folders and files in japanese all right within the linux partition, is the vfat ones that are giving me a headache.

About ACPI... don't remember seeing the laptop option while installing. Used the graphical install, anaconda. If there was that option, I probably neglected it.... the distracting power of a technology hater wife is as powerful as evil. Hope I don't have to reinstall the whole thing again...

maxut · 12-16-2004, 08:27 AM

try "iocharset=utf8" instead of "iocharset=cp932". let us know if it fix.

good luck.

inu_maru · 12-17-2004, 04:34 AM

Yay!

Code:

iocharset=utf8

worked like a charm.

Thanks a bundle!

bavarian · 12-17-2004, 04:36 AM

concering battery status: the acpi support is normally integrated into the kernel and usually doesn't work also with standard commands like _apm_ or _asapm_. but you could give it a try, maybe you get it to work

as notebook hdd control needs some acpi options, too, i suggest a kernel recompilation. heavy thing to do for the first time, but there's masses of HOWTO and docfiles concerning this.

greetz
bavarian

maxut · 12-17-2004, 05:15 AM

@inu_maru
im glad to know that it fixed the chatset trouble.

inu_maru · 01-17-2005, 08:07 AM

ACPI problem solved. I only had to update the BIOS. [Twice]
This page has all the info and links about it...

Should have checked it before actually building my own kernel. Quite a fun trip, learned a lot.

Now, I only have to figure out how to read USB disk that have some files named in Japanese.

*Sorry for bumping the post...

@maxut: Thanks again for your help!