RH8, ncurses on the console

[Scott Burns]

Hi,
I'm having a little trouble running some ncurses applications on the console. Rather than getting a nice little boxy picture of a truck and some traffic lights showing me what my weighbridge is doing, I get junk all over the place, albeit colourful junk. I tried changing my TERM to vt100 (black and white, no lines), ansi(okay, but no lines) and xterm(okay, but no lines). The no lines I believe is caused by not having an alternate character set. By 'junk' I mean random boxes of colour in no particular position, but they are in repeatable positions.

Now, where it gets really strange is that in xterm in X locally, xterm displaying on a remote Xserver, telnetting, sshing and rlogging in from another PC and even on a dumb terminal hooked up to the serial port, I have no problems whatsoever. I only get the problem sitting at the console.

I first thought to blame ncurses because the "screen" program which also apparently uses it also has problems. When I use screen to look at man pages the formatting is bad including missing text and incorrect line lengths. When I run sndconfig it looks pretty bad even though it works okay from the console without screen. The reason why I'm beginning to doubt this is that it's only on the console I have the problem.

At the moment I'm leaning towards a kernel problem of some sort. I've tried both the RedHat 2.4.18-14 kernels and the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org with no results.

The most recent box this worked on was an Intel 810 with a 1.2 Celeron running RH7.2. I'm currently trying to get it to work on an Intel 845 with a 1.7 Celeron on RH8.0.

Thanks



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