Speakup and VT100 Emulation

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Fri Aug 8 17:05:01 UTC 2008


	Thank you. I also had trouble getting the oralux
distribution to install correctly last year when I did it but I
was able to kick things along by manually formatting the drive
and installing an ext3 file system on it because the script on
the CDROM seemed to get confused somewhere along the way.

	Right now, I am using this laptop but, as soon as I
don't need it every day, I will start from scratch with maybe
Ubuntu and see if I end up with a talking laptop that can be upgraded
normally without  the kind of issues one runs in to when using
an obsolete distribution which is no longer supported.

Martin McCormick

Jude DaShiell writes:
> 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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