[gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi there,

I've been wondering for a long time why is this happening, and I
couldn't find a reason, so here's my question.

When I sometimes use my Gentoo 2006.0 (or now 2006.1) minimal live-cd
to do some tasks, I appreciate that if I enter into my root
/usr/src/linux and run 'make menuconfig' ncurses paint lines
perfectly, and everything is showed as should.

I haven't got X installed, it is a terminal computer. When I run (now
in my system, not with live-cd running) for example 'mp3blaster'
[ncurses based app], or 'tmsnc' it looks as if there not redrawing as
they should.

But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps
and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make
menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all
those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are
malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty.

I am using vesafb-tng, with a ~x86 system. I do use bootsplash (well,
splashutils and friends), but if I don't load it [I have another grub
option that does not start it] it happens the same.

I don't know what issues are happening into my ncurses libs.

Thank you for your attention,
Rafael Fernandez Lopez.

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