-----Original Message-----
From: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: 2.0.36's "make menuconfig" broken on my system
>Hi Alan.
>
>On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:17:26AM -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
> >>> The 2.0.36 release's "make menuconfig" console configuration
> >>> program is not displaying properly on my system.
>
> >> I agree with that. I had a hard time to see the selections.
>
> > Which ncurses , what terminal type, what sort of 'not displaying
> > properly' ?
>
>My experience has been that "make menuconfig" does NOT work under
>X-Windows in an xterm - basically, the main menu gets mangled into a
>semi-unreadable state when first loaded, and when a submenu is
>selected, it's drawn on top of the main menu without cxlearing the
>screen first, then when one goes back to the main menu, that gets
>drawn on top of the result...
>
>The above is true under RH 5.0 with kernels 2.0.29 through 2.0.35,
>under RH 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35 and under Debian with kernels 2.0.34
>and 2.0.35. In the RH cases, DISPLAY was set to xterm and in the
>Debian cases, it was set to xterm-debian (in both cases the standard
>settings).
>
>I can also add that setting DISPLAY to vt100 or vt220 in both cases
>made no difference whatsoever...
>
>I can try 2.0.36 under RH 5.1 this evening if you wish?
>
>Best wishes from Riley.
>
>
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