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Re: green lines hell



Hi,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:01:06PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:

> > [...] Or if you run X,
> > Xconsole is typically able to show kernel messages in a window.
> 

> Alternatively sysinst could suppress those messages during certain operations
> (or while in a menu) - but that turned out to not be easy either when I last
> looked at it (you need a real tty to redirect the kernel console to, /dev/null
> won't do).

sysinst could use a pty, like xconsole (if I browsed xconsole.c correctly).

for added comfort, create a screen area to output the messages (although
this doesn't help scripted-from-another-machine over serial line installs).

	-is


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