Speakup and VT100 Emulation

[Jude DaShiell]

Actually slackware 12.1 needs the same kind of help for its installer 
program for the same reason.  Maybe setting terminal type to dumb might 
work.  One problem I had with speakup.s on slackware 12.1 was getting it 
to install correctly on the hard drive in the first place.  I might try to 
get around this by chroot . in the /kernels/speakup.s directory on the 
slackware 12.1 cd before I run setup but have no idea if this really will 
work.



On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	I have been using ssh on a speakup-equipped Oralux
> system to access other UNIX boxes with fairly good results but I
> ran in to something I haven't been able to solve yet.
>
> 	The terminal type defined on this system if you type
>
> echo $TERM is linux and I hadn't had any real problem using the
> arrow keys, etc so things seemed normal enough.
>
> 	Here is what I did that didn't work:
>
> 	I used ssh to get in to a Linux box that has c-kermit on
> board and a serial port. I used that serial port to communicate
> with the serial console on a new box that will eventually have
> FreeBSD UNIX. When I was using an old P.C. with DOS and
> DOS-Kermit as the terminal emulator, this would work correctly.
>
> 	Under the Linux and speakup console, I am hearing all
> the VT100 sequences along with the text that the installer
> program is printing to the screen. If I read the full screen
> after the data stop coming in, it is all there and readable, but
> listening to it as it comes in is a real chore.
>
> 	I did tell .bash_profile to set the TERM environment
> variable to vt100 but this had no effect other than it does now
> show vt100 instead of Linux as the TERM type.
>
> 	Are there any other things I might try to end up with a
> more sequential output and no escape sequences?
>
> 	I think the full-screen output from the FreeBSD
> installer does send the data fairly much as one would read it as
> I haven't had any problems with the old DOS system and I don't
> have problems with other full-screen applications such as lynx
> but I really can't use the installer right now because the data
> are so garballed.
>
> 	Strangely enough, the arrow keys still work but one
> needs to know for sure where you just went before you enter the
> wrong information and have to start over.
>
> 	Thank you.
>
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>
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