Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I start moving down the list of choices when I get to the bottom, [Q]uit, and keep scrolling [Q]uit appears to move to the top of the screen. A similiar phenomena happens when I "vi" a file in the terminal or do a "man <something>". Debian seems to get confused about how to handle the terminal. In the case of man I get almost continuous underlining and reverse-video in areas of the man page that shouldn't have this type of highlighting.
If it weren't for the fact that this was working fine up until I did an apt-get upgrade of my potato system about 1.5 weeks ago I'd rack it up to an incompatibility between Debian and IRIX, but it was working perfectly prior to this. Here's the command I'm using to connect to my Debian laptop: xterm -bg white -fn screen14 -fg black -T laptop -e ssh laptop SSH is the only method I have to access the laptop, but I could certainly install a telnet or rlogin daemon if that would help me find the problem. Once I'm logged in everything appears to be set properly, eg., % echo $TERM xterm % stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke Is anyone else in a similiar situation, ie., accessing their Debian box remotely from a non-Debian machine, that can try to recreate the problem? Thanks, Gary Hennigan
