Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, on Sun 18 Sep 2016 12:21:01 +0200, wrote: > Looking closely, it seems it's due to a spurious ^M in the output: > > C ^[[35C^[[42D^M > ^[[0m^@^@English^[[35C^[[42D^[[A^@^@C > > I wonder where this ^M comes from. It's most probably coming from various icrnl and

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Thu 15 Sep 2016 02:23:21 +0200, wrote: > I'm however still getting displaying glitches on the serial console, > which we already had with alpha7. Running from an xterm: > > kvm -cdrom dest/netboot/mini.iso -serial stdio > > and passing console=ttyS0 to the kernel, when moving

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Thu 15 Sep 2016 02:23:21 +0200, wrote: > Setting TERM=ansi on the kernel cmdline fixes the issue. I'm wondering whether we should actually make this the default instead of vt102? I've been trying with qemu's internal console for instance, it works way better with ansi

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have moved the support to /lib/debian-installer.d/S70menu, along bterm, which makes it actually much simpler, and fixes a lot of issues. Along the way it gets disabled on the VGA console; it's kept enabled on ssh and serial consoles. I'm however still getting displaying glitches on the

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 12.09.2016 18:10, Axel Beckert wrote: > Sounds like a strong argument against enabling it by default on VGA > consoles. I'm totally fine with that. :-) Yeah I'm also fine with that. Sorry for not replying earlier. As long as you have a way to multiplex differently like with VTs or some other

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Axel Beckert, on Mon 12 Sep 2016 18:10:38 +0200, wrote: > > invoking screen is in script: > > - > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/rootskel.git/tree/src/sbin/debian-installer > > > > It uses system's $TERM, if bterm fails in screen, maybe it's a bug of > > screen? > > As I am not sure

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Samuel Thibault > wrote: > > Another argument against screen-udeb by default on normal VGA console: > > it seems to be preventing bterm from running, and thus disables a lot of > > languages which need it. I

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Roger Shimizu, on Tue 13 Sep 2016 00:35:45 +0900, wrote: > invoking screen is in script: > - > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/rootskel.git/tree/src/sbin/debian-installer > > It uses system's $TERM, if bterm fails in screen, maybe it's a bug of screen? Err, it's not really a bug:

Re: screen-udeb prevents bterm, and thus a lot of languages

2016-09-12 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Another argument against screen-udeb by default on normal VGA console: > it seems to be preventing bterm from running, and thus disables a lot of > languages which need it. I haven't really followed what