Console display oddities in menuconfig
David Nedrow
listbox at nedron.net
Sun Jul 18 04:55:46 UTC 2004
I've noticed this problem now on several machines with both Core 1 and
Core 2.
I boot into level 3, as virtually everything I do is console-based. When
I'm building a kernel, I use "make menuconfig". The problem is that the
display is corrupted. Checkboxes don't line up, text is overwritten,
etc. I actually believe this started in Red Hat releases 8 and 9, though
I don't remember which specifically.
Note that I've tried multiple video cards and machines, so I don't
believe it is hardware related.
Other console apps (pine, cdp, etc.) seem to work fine.
Interestingly enough, if I used the "menuconfig" to configure a busybox
(http://www.busybox.net), I see the exact same display problems.
And, if I run the config util via a terminal window in X, everything
seems to be fine.
Any ideas out there as to what's happening? Emulation issue (these are
brand new, complete installs)?
-David
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