I just managed to make this work by using a different terminal emulator - there's definitely something funky there when using screen, though.
Thanks for the replies. On 28 August 2010 14:04, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just noticed something else strange - if I reboot the plug while > it's on a corrupted screen, the uboot display is also corrupted. Then > if I drop my screen session and reconnect it works. It looks like > something the installer is doing on a page change is changing the > terminal settings and causing the corruption. > > On 28 August 2010 14:01, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe that's correct - 8-bit, no parity. Unfortunately I tried >> this and I'm still having the same problem. >> >> On 28 August 2010 08:36, Holland, John <john.holl...@cellent-fs.de> wrote: >>> On 28.08.2010, at 07:50, Shiva Bhattacharjee <shiva...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Make sure to use >>> >>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 >>> >>> That says to parse in utf8, as far as i can tell >>> >>> >>> I believe 115200n8 means 115200/bs, 8 bit word with no parity and 1 stop >>> bit. >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I've been trying to install Debian on my SheevaPlug following Martin >>>> Michlmayr's guide. I'm having a problem that a few people seem to have >>>> had recently, see: >>>> http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1788. As described >>>> in that post, I can do everything in uboot as described in the >>>> tutorial, but immediately after booting the kernel I only get garbage >>>> output on the screen. Mine appears slightly less corrupted than in the >>>> forum, I can see that it's an installer because the window outlines, >>>> buttons, widgets and whatnot are visible, they're just illegible. >>>> >>>> Curiously, if I ditch my screen session and reconnect, the current >>>> screen is correct (it's blank, but moving the cursor between the >>>> widgets causes them to be correctly redrawn) until going to the next >>>> page, at which time it corrupts again. I suspect this to be some sort >>>> of terminal setting, but I have no idea what it might be. >>>> >>>> I'm on a Mac, creating the screen session using screen >>>> /dev/cu.usbserial-FTT39QOIB 115200. I'm using the installer images >>>> from: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/ >>>> >>>> dated August 27th. >>>> >>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Colin >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org >>>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>>> listmas...@lists.debian.org >>>> Archive: >>>> http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=f1v05b0whf64fgn3rkguv_fwsmesht8_nm...@mail.gmail.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> Cellent Finance Solutions AG >>> >>> Firmensitz: Calwer Straße 33, 70173 Stuttgart >>> Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 720743 >>> Vorstand: Thomas Wild >>> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Rudolf Zipf >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin09ljsk=obuxap6dpi9q8esbm9drmk36d8z...@mail.gmail.com
