[Parted-maintainers] Bug#398686: debian-installer: [ia64] partitioning screen rendering problem w/ serial console

[Geert Stappers]

Op 14-11-2006 om 18:40 schreef Bryan Stillwell:
> 
> When installing using the daily netinst tree for 2006-11-14, I'm having
> rendering issues during the partitioning stage of the installer.  Check
> out the video below (playable with mplayer) that demonstrates the
> problem by scrolling down the list of drives:
> 
> http://www.bokeoa.com/files/di-ia64-partitioning.mp4

The movie is 620792 bytes, shows 22 seconds.
> 
> Hitting ctrl-l after each step makes it usable, but it would be much
> better if things just rendered properly.  The rest of the installer
> renders things correctly, it's just the partitioning step that has
> the problem...

Then I think is a parted issue. (reassign is done in another message)


Thing that wonders me, is why the newt frontend is used
on a serial line. IIRC switches d-i automaticly to text frontend
when detecting that the console is at a serial line.


Cheers
Geert Stappers