I sent the following to the red hat 8 list. now fwding on to these lists. > Hi all. > > There is a problem with my applications that have a textual based user interface > (using text-art in the console environment, not graphics in the x). e.g. cdp, the > kernel modules screens etc. > > for some reason, the text art seems to not line up properly, and controls seem to > have wrong alignment on the screen. In particular, running cdp from bash gives a > confusing blue screen and quitting seems not to be possible. on killing cdp from > another tty, I go back to see that newlines are not being put in for each prompt as > you press enter. the fix for this requires logging out from that tty and logging > back in. i.e. very messy text output... > > I have installed rh8.0 from the cds. the problem occurred... then applied all the > updates from the i386 dir from updates.redhat.com... except the kernel ones. i > upgraded the kernel separately to 2.4.20. the problem persists. > > my installation has all the packages installed as well as all languages... choosing > Australian english as the default. > > i have an intel P4 2.4Ghz 533MHz bus with the intel 845PE chipset on a gigabyte > main board with 512 Mb of DDR 333Mhz ram. and nvidia geforce 4 64mb graphics card. > I am using an older monitor at this time, but x seems to work ok with it. I have > speakup in the kernel as well. > > The same problems seem to be occurring for a friend's rh8 installation on a toshiba > laptop. the os works fine in every other respect as far as i can tell. I did have > rh7.2 on a toshiba laptop a while ago without these screen problems. the laptop > with rh8 only has english installed, and not all packages. > > Does anyone know about this problem? Any help would be appreciated. > > further to this, i am wondering if rh8 maintains a lot of the text based interfaced > apps rather than dumping them in favour of the x gui interfaces. e.g. in rehat 7x > there seemed to be a lot of apps with a X Gui option and a console text-ui option. > e.g. there were some packages like redhat-config-* that used to have a text based > interface but i cannot find them in rh8. > > mat. > [MJM]
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