Bug#854588: debian-installer: recognize arrow keys as esc in serial console
- To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
- Cc: YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>, Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>, 854588@bugs.debian.org, debian-sparc <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#854588: debian-installer: recognize arrow keys as esc in serial console
- From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:59:30 +0100
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- Reply-to: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>, 854588@bugs.debian.org
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on mer. 15 mars 2017 10:45:17 +0100, wrote:
> Please note that we have to set TERM=linux on the kernel command
> line to get a usable serial console at all. Without setting TERM
> to "linux", the text is all garbage.
And what happens when setting TERM to other values such as ansi or
vt102 ? Garbage as well ?
> My suspicion is that both issues are related to Roger's patch
> to add GNU screen support in debian-installer.
Probably, yes.
Samuel
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