Bug#559364: [RFC]: Bug#559364: regression: console text is red

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 20:42:04 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:17:18PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > I dig into. The "tput op" does not do what is expected.
> > 
> > The our 8.x kernel series have added following options:
> > 
> > # UTF-8 console support
> > options         VESA
> > options         SC_PIXEL_MODE   # add support for the raster text mode
> > options         TEKEN_UTF8      # UTF-8 output handling
> > options         TEKEN_XTERM     # xterm-style terminal emulation
> > 
> > But the TERM settings is not xterm, but still cons25.
> > It suffices to change cons25 into xterm in src/init.c
> > and debian/share/inittab.kfreebsd-gnu in source package sysvinit.
> 
> Thanks for investigating.
> 
> It's probably the way to go. xterm also brings partial support for
> UTF-8, and we are likely to deprecate (remove ?) 7.x kernel for squeeze.

I did some minimal checking, by changing TERM to xterm on the console
and it seems at least arrow keys stop working correctly on ncurses
programs.

regards,
guillem