Bug 69178 – console drawing looks awful... maybe problem with ncurses?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jurek Bartuszek (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 12:30:49 UTC]

Hi! I know gentoo users (besides me) that experience the same problem. Console curses programs look awful... look here:

alsamixer: http://wset.edu.pl/~koxta/pic4.jpg
make menuconfig: http://wset.edu.pl/~koxta/pic5.jpg

Please notice that in alsamixer the volume bars seem not to be drawn at all...

TERM is set to linux. When I set TERM to ie. vt100, alsamixer looks normally, but in black and white... that's not an option.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into the console
2. run alsamixer

Actual Results:  
See http://wset.edu.pl/~koxta/pic4.jpg and http://wset.edu.pl/~koxta/pic5.jpg


Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"           
AUTOCLEAN="yes"                 
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"       
COMPILER=""                     
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://src.gentoo.pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"                  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"       
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"          
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""              
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa arts audiofile autofs avi berkdb bidi
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups devfs dga divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr
encode escreen esd f77 fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kadu-modules kadu-voice kde libg++ libwww lirc
mad md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba
scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 usb
videos vim-with-x wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_pl"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-10-27 14:58:05 UTC]

do you have USE=unicode ?

[Comment 2 Jurek Bartuszek (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 23:36:42 UTC]

Yes, I do

[Comment 3 Jurek Bartuszek (RETIRED) 2004-10-28 04:17:01 UTC]

Thanks for your suggestion... I rebuilt ncurses and slang without unicode support (actually, I've removed unicode from USE in make.conf), then alsa-utils... alsamixer looks fine now, same `make menuconfig'.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-28 05:31:31 UTC]

yeah, if you're going to use unicode, you need to make sure you use a terminal that supports it :)

[Comment 5 Jurek Bartuszek (RETIRED) 2004-10-28 11:49:17 UTC]

Doesn't TERM=linux support unicode??