"Michael Engel"
Has someone already installed 8.2 Pro in Japanese ? When reaching the following menu (and afterwards too), everything Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc., is Mojibake: http://www.suse.de/de/private/products/suse_linux/i386/images82/y2_sellang.p...
Somehow you must have gotten the VGA16 X server, not the frame buffer.
This happens when you choose vga=normal on the kernel command line
when installing. It is chosen automatically on hardware where the
frame buffer doesn't work. This is very rare, but there are a few
graphics cards which have this problem. The "Intel i810" on-board
Graphics chip is an example of graphics hardware which doesn't support
frame buffer although it is not extremely old.
Did you specify vga=normal manually?
The problem with the VGA16 X server is that it doesn't have a RENDER
extension, and unfortunately the version of the Qt library used for
YaST2 in SuSE Linux 8.2 still checks whether the RENDER extension
exists and enables font rendering via libXft only on displays which
have the RENDER extension. This is nonsense with Xft >= 2 because Xft2
works the same way on all displays, with or without RENDER extension.
This will be fixed soon, but for the moment, installing in Japanese is
not possible on systems which need to be installed using the VGA16
X-server or are remotely installed via VNC because VNC is still
XFree86 3.x based and doesn't have a RENDER extension either.
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Mike Fabian