ncurses ascii box characters not showing correctly in minicom 2.2

Joe Sauer jsauer at vernier.com
Fri Oct 26 20:02:41 UTC 2007


I just upgraded minicom from version 1.75 to 2.2.  I use it to connect to the console tty line on an embedded Linux machine running 2.6.18 with ncurses 5.4.  When I run the ALSA utility "alsamixer", I get the following screen:


lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq[AlsaMixer v1.0.13 (Press Escape to quit)]qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
x Card: lq-sound                                                               x
x Chip:                                                                        x
x View: [Playback] Capture  All                                                x
x Item: Headphone                                                              x
x                                                                              x
x    lqqk                        lqqk                        lqqk     lqqk     x
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     x  x     x
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     x  x     x
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     >
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     x
x    xaax                        x  x                        x  x     xaax     x
x    xaax                        x  x   Adaptive             x  x     xaax     x
x    tqqu     lqqk      lqqk     mqqj               lqqk     mqqj     mqqj     x
x    xOOx     xMMx      xMMx                        xMMx                       x
x    mqqj     mqqj      mqqj                        mqqj                       x
x  100<>100                        0                           0     74<>74    x
x <Headphon>Headphon  Tone Cut   Bass   Bass Con  Bass Cut  Treble    PCM      x
mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj


With minicom 1.75 I see this, which is correct:


+------------------[AlsaMixer v1.0.13 (Press Escape to quit)]------------------+
| Card: lq-sound                                                               |
| Chip:                                                                        |
| View: [Playback] Capture  All                                                |
| Item: Headphone                                                              |
|                                                                              |
|    +--+                        +--+                        +--+     +--+     |
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |  |     |
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |  |     |
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     >
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     |
|    |##|                        |  |                        |  |     |##|     |
|    |##|                        |  |   Adaptive             |  |     |##|     |
|    +--+     +--+      +--+     +--+               +--+     +--+     +--+     |
|    |OO|     |MM|      |MM|                        |MM|                       |
|    +--+     +--+      +--+                        +--+                       |
|  100<>100                        0                           0     74<>74    |
| <Headphon>Headphon  Tone Cut   Bass   Bass Con  Bass Cut  Treble    PCM      |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

--Joe Sauer




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