make menuconfig screen screwed up

make menuconfig screen screwed up

[erich]

This is probably obvious but it's escaping me at the moment:

I have a RedHat 8.0 box and when I do a kernel "make menuconfig"  on the
console the screen is all screwed up, like it isn't drawing the thin
lines, and the text colors are different. When I ssh into the box and do a
"make menuconfig" everything is fine and the menu appears normal.

Why would everything be fine in ssh but screwed up on the console?

Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[Andrew Kelly]

erich@olypen.com wrote:
> 
> This is probably obvious but it's escaping me at the moment:
> 
> I have a RedHat 8.0 box and when I do a kernel "make menuconfig"  on the
> console the screen is all screwed up, like it isn't drawing the thin
> lines, and the text colors are different. When I ssh into the box and do a
> "make menuconfig" everything is fine and the menu appears normal.
> 
> Why would everything be fine in ssh but screwed up on the console?


While we're on the same topic, where is the kernel source,
anyway?

I installed RedHat 8.0 for the first time the other day,
been using 7.2 and other Vendors' distributions up till
now. Also for the first time I chose one of the pre-configured
installations rather than selecting the packages myself.

So, last night I boot up for the first time and wanted to build
a new kernel straight off, and hey, my kernel source isn't
where I've normally been finding it for the last 5 years.

What's up. Did it move with RedHat 8.0? Or is it just not
installed
with a Server installation?

Andy

Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[terry white]

on "3-11-2003" "Andrew Kelly" writ:

: erich@olypen.com wrote:
: >
: > Why would everything be fine in ssh but screwed up on the console?

... i noticed a similar situation when installing RH-8.0.  the curses
based install was all 'screwed up', and i had to use the 'graphic'
install to get it done.

    then, afterward, the terminal wants to wrap at about 60 characters.
i have yet to figure that crap out.


on "3-11-2003" "Andrew Kelly" writ:

: While we're on the same topic, where is the kernel source,
: anyway?

    rather than do a 'server' install, i chose the packages i wanted
installed, and the 'kernel' stuff ended up under "/usr/src" ...


-- 
... i'm a man, but i can change,
    if i have to , i guess ...

Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[Yu Chen]

It's known issue in 8.0, check out here:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/

the Distribution General Notes section

It says:

Distribution General Notes

    *

      Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default
in languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

      This has been known to cause various issues:

       Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do
not always appear correctly in certain locales.

Chen



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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Tyler wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:01:57PM -0800, erich@olypen.com wrote:
> >
> > This is probably obvious but it's escaping me at the moment:
> >
> > I have a RedHat 8.0 box and when I do a kernel "make menuconfig"  on the
> > console the screen is all screwed up, like it isn't drawing the thin
> > lines, and the text colors are different. When I ssh into the box and do a
> > "make menuconfig" everything is fine and the menu appears normal.
> >
> > Why would everything be fine in ssh but screwed up on the console?
> >
>
> What is $TERM set to?
>
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Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[Tyler]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:01:57PM -0800, erich@olypen.com wrote:
> 
> This is probably obvious but it's escaping me at the moment:
> 
> I have a RedHat 8.0 box and when I do a kernel "make menuconfig"  on the
> console the screen is all screwed up, like it isn't drawing the thin
> lines, and the text colors are different. When I ssh into the box and do a
> "make menuconfig" everything is fine and the menu appears normal.
> 
> Why would everything be fine in ssh but screwed up on the console?
> 

What is $TERM set to?

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Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[erich]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Yu Chen wrote:

> It's known issue in 8.0, check out here:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/

Any idea on what to do to fix it?

I found this mini-howto:

http://www.frozenblue.net/tools/howtos/?v=redhat-8-console-fonts

But all I've managed to do is screw up "make menuconfig" when I ssh in
also, in addition to not working correctly on the console.

This is usually a good sign, right? ;-)

Eric

Re: make menuconfig screen screwed up

[erich]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 erich@olypen.com wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Yu Chen wrote:
>
> > It's known issue in 8.0, check out here:
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/
>
> Any idea on what to do to fix it?
>
> I found this mini-howto:
>
> http://www.frozenblue.net/tools/howtos/?v=redhat-8-console-fonts
>
> But all I've managed to do is screw up "make menuconfig" when I ssh in
> also, in addition to not working correctly on the console.
>
> This is usually a good sign, right? ;-)

It's good sign because after you get something all screwed up there's
nowhere to go but the solution.

Here's what I did:

/etc/sysconfig/i18n

#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
#SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso15"

The commented out lines are the original RedHat 8, the rest is from RedHat
7.3 allegedly, I didn't have a 7.3 system handy to check though.

Then I tossed /bin/unicode_stop into my rc.local, although I suppose I
could have altered the unicode_start in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.

So now "make menuconfig" works on the console and everywhere else and I'm
happy.

I don't know whether this is a good solution in general, whether it
negatively affects other applications. My particular installation is for a
server so I'm not really running apps and I haven't installed X or
anything. YMMV.

Eric