ncurses ascii box characters not showing correctly in minicom 2.2

Adam Lackorzynski adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Thu Nov 8 22:19:05 UTC 2007


Hi,

sorry for the late reply.

Does calling minicom with -7 change things?

On Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 13:02:41 -0700, Joe Sauer wrote:
> 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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Adam
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