Problem: all the accented characters in latin-1 are mapped to the same
glyph, a reverse-video questionmark.
Prior to the upgrade, they were displayed correctly.
Examining the character codes, I can see that they are what I expect,
i.e. different latin-1 accented characters.

showconsolefont tells me that the correct glyphs are present on the
video card - I put them there after each
boot using setfont lat1-16.psfu.gz
[that's off the top of my head; I'm not at my Linux box right now] -
but are just not being called for.

The box is a Dell Gx1p with 400Mhz PII and ATI 3D RagePro AGP video.
I'm using Slackware 11.x (which
originally had kernel 2.4), minimally upgraded to run kernel 2.6.24.5-
smp from Slackware 12.1. Because
this was a partial, piecemeal upgrade, I may have accidentally broken
the console font setup in some
obscure way, but I've read the kbd doc without finding out how to fix
it. Almost everything else works fine.

I have kbd-1.12 installed, which is current for Slackware 12.1, and it
says that setfont automatically installs
the font mappings packaged with psfu fonts, so there's nothing to be
done there. That seems to leave the
possibility that I'm somehow in the wrong console mode, but I don't
know why this might come about, or
how to check on it. The reset program doesn't fix it. My lilo.conf
uses vga=normal, which doesn't add
anything to the kernel command line, and it correctly boots in 80x25
mode.

Ideas and clues gratefully received ...