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Re: b-f 3.0.22 on hppa, screen drawing problem



Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> writes:

>   Just built 3.0.22 for hppa, and tried an install in French.  When I
> formatted my second partition, and it put up the dialog asking me where
> I wanted to mount it (/boot, /usr, etc), that dialog was drawn over the
> previous one.  I selected /boot, and the next dialog was draw over the
> top again, giving me the main menu with bits of the "where do you want
> to mount" one showing at either side.
> 
> Subsequent dialogs cleared properly.  The next problem was that the
> screen where I should select which modules I want to load didn't
> actually list any modules.  Just had the 'exit' option.  This seems to
> be a problem with painting the text; if I scroll down and select one of
> the blank lines I get the next level menu.  Not a big deal on hppa, as
> we compile all relevant stuff for first boot in to the kernel.
> 
> b-f was built on a current woody system, with just modconf 0.2.43 in
> /archive/debian/local/
[...]
> Tried an English install, and none of those problems occurred.  Dialogs
> were cleared/drawn properly, and the modules screen had all its text
> drawn.

This wouldn't be caused by modconf -- I would be caused by newt (or
possibly slang).

Can you track this down and file a bug against the right pkg?


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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>


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