Re: make menuconfig (potato)
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 01:17:58PM +0930, John Pearson wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 04:48:49PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote
> > On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 06:03:04PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > > On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why are the menuconfig boxes now shown with ascii characters (*, |,
> > > > etc.) instead of real lines as in earlier versions?
> > >
> > > What's your TERM environment variable set to? On my system, if it's
> > > "linux", "rxvt", or "xterm-debian" it uses color and lines. "vt100" goves
> > > lines but no color. "xterm" gives ASCII chars and no color.
> > >
> > > The default for a console should be "linux". For an Xterm from the deb
> > > package, it should be "xterm-debian". For an rxvt, it should be "rxvt".
> > >
> >
> >
> > TERM=linux There is color, but no lines.
> >
> > System is potato, kernel 2.2.9.
> >
>
> At the console (i.e., not under X) this is also affected by the font you
> load using setfont, or SVGATextMode. If you're in 80x25 console mode, try
> setfont cp850-8x16
> which should fix it (on the current vt) if that is the reason.
>
> If this isa the problem and you have SVGATextmodse installed, you should
> edit /etc/TextConfig to fix it permanently; if you are not using
> SVGATextmode, edit /etc/kbd/config.
Thanks, that fixed it.
My TextConfig had "FontProg /usr/bin/setfont -u def.uni" which was
SUPPOSED to handle that, according to the comment lines.
Bob
--
Bob Nielsen Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: w6swe@w6swe.ampr.org
DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Reply to: