Bug#586953: Is Open Firmware prompt slower than 9600? (Bug#586953)

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi,

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko hat am Tue 20. Jul, 14:56 (+0200) geschrieben:
> On 07/11/2010 09:58 PM, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > grub2 (1.98+20100705-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> >>  .
> >>    * New Bazaar snapshot.
> >>      - Bidi and diacritics support.
> >>        + Use terminfo for ieee1275 terminals (closes: #586953).
> >>     
> > I'm sorry, but this doesn't fix my problem. I've installed and run this
> > new release, but I still have the problem that the commandline or editing
> > mode is left, when I hold down an arrow key.
> >
> >   
> I think that for some reason your ieee1275 is slower than the nominal
> 9600.

Does someone else experienced that the Open Firmware prompt is very
slow? Is it possible to adjust this?

From the bug report:
> when switch to the editing mode or the commandline mode from the menu and
> hold down an arrow key, e.g. right arrow to move to the end of line, the
> editing mode quits and I'm back to the menu.
> 
> To me it looks like the arrow keys send multi‐character sequences
> starting with an escape character. The escape character is used to leave
> the editing mode, hence the escape is misinterpreted when the key is held
> down.


Regads, Jörg.
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