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Bug#689548: debian-installer: serial console glitches



Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Robert Edmonds, le Wed 03 Oct 2012 18:33:13 -0400, a écrit :
> > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Robert Edmonds, le Wed 03 Oct 2012 18:04:50 -0400, a écrit :
> > > >     virt-install \
> > > 
> > > Do you know what kind of terminal virt-install emulates? (if it emulates
> > > anything, instead of just passing chars by).
> > 
> > virt-install actually just invokes "virsh console".  looking at virsh's
> > tools/console.c i think it is very close to just passing chars through.
> 
> So we can't really expect it to work in all kinds of terms.
> 
> Fixing it would mean to either
> 
> - add more terminfo files into d-i, and you'll have to pass e.g
> TERM=xterm along console=ttyS0
> - hack the vt102 terminfo into also recognizing xterm arrow sequences
> as such. I'm afraid it's not even possible without breaking the vt102
> support.
> 
> Samuel

ok, i tried "virsh console" from a real linux virtual console and it
worked just fine with d-i.

is there a better X terminal emulator in debian for accessing a serial
console d-i?  i tried plain 'xterm' but got the same result as with
xfce4-terminal.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org

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