On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:38:25AM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: >>>>> I dig into. The "tput op" does not do what is expected. >>>>> >>>>> The our 8.x kernel series have added following options: >>>>> >>>>> # UTF-8 console support >>>>> options VESA >>>>> options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode >>>>> options TEKEN_UTF8 # UTF-8 output handling >>>>> options TEKEN_XTERM # xterm-style terminal emulation >>>>> >>>>> But the TERM settings is not xterm, but still cons25. >>>>> It suffices to change cons25 into xterm in src/init.c >>>>> and debian/share/inittab.kfreebsd-gnu in source package sysvinit. >>>> >>>> Thanks for investigating. >>>> >>>> It's probably the way to go. xterm also brings partial support for >>>> UTF-8, and we are likely to deprecate (remove ?) 7.x kernel for squeeze. >>> >>> I did some minimal checking, by changing TERM to xterm on the console >>> and it seems at least arrow keys stop working correctly on ncurses >>> programs. >>> >> >> I confirm the issue here, so it seems we have to revert the options in >> the kernel. That's a pitty because the goal was to use the UTF-8 >> terminal to be able to have non-english language in debian-installer. > > I looked into HEAD, it have changes: > > SVN rev 197115 on 2009-09-12 10:34:34Z by ed > - Make 8-bit support run-time configurable. > > SVN rev 197117 on 2009-09-12 12:44:21Z by ed > - Make xterm/cons25 support runtime configurable. > > SVN rev 197481 on 2009-09-25 13:51:01Z by ed > - Add a new escape sequence to switch between cons25 and xterm. > - Just run this to switch to xterm: > printf '\e[=T' > - If you get bored and want to switch back to cons25, run this: > printf '\e[=1T' > > So 1st step would be revert kernel config to 8-STABLE default. > We still could later do backport of teken/syscons changes from HEAD and > teach installer how to switch into XTERM, given there will be man-power > for this. >
The question here is to know if debian-installer will also be affected by the bug. If the arrow keys are not usable, debian-installer also won't be usable. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org