An acer aspire netbook, 532h, with pineview integrated graphic chip.

When running the museekd ncurses client, mucous, escape characters and whatnot appear throughout the terminal, whether virtual or one of the tty's, rendering the terminal screen virtually useless.

This message appears in the tty that X is started from:

Alas, googling returns no empathy, so the problem is presented to you.

I've tried using no xorg.conf, plus xorg.conf's generated by both xorgsetup and X -configure. Googling for assistance with xorg.conf variations for this model haven't been fruitful, neither.

The only other ncurses client that I've tried, wicd-curses, doesn't appear to have a similar issue; mucous appears to work flawlessly on other pc's.

cheers,

It's likely the character encoding your terminal is using. Try changing it to UTF-8.

Try launching it like
(Change muscous to whatever the command is. I'm just assuming that's it. Never used the program though.)

Thank you for your response, reed9 - I neglected to mention in my op that the character encoding was my first thought; however, after switching to utf-8 universally, the problem persists, whether launching in Terminal, kconsole, rxvt, and specifically, urxvt, plus as mentioned, in the tty's.

So after ruling out the utf-8 issue (hopefully), I'm hung up on thinking it's somehow graphic-related, though that could be a red-herring also.

cheers,

Have you tried different TERM= settings?
"TERM=vt100 LANG=C command" ought to be fairly innocuous way of running a curses based app.

I have had this problem at times running slackpkg. I'm normally in init4, but when a major upgrade comes along, (like this last one that included new kde) I drop to init 3 to run slackpkg. I get gobbledygook on the screen at times. I can reboot to init 3 and run it again without problems. I haven't figured it out yet either. Then again, I haven't given it much time to figure it out.

@Gazl - Following your suggestion, I've tried every variation possible, but still "no dice."

As per mlangdn's experience, I've had similar weird issues with messed up displays that vanish upon reboot.

Whether issue-related or not, I get the very *occasional* screen flicker, particularly in a gmail gadget.

cheers,

Would this solve it?

http://slackwiki.org/Utf-8_linux_console

Unfortunately, no: as far as I can tell, utf-8 is in effect globally, which isn't necessarily the case on the other boxes that have no issue.

ta, anyhow.

cheers,