[nos-bbs] JNOS on Raspberry Pi - Keyboard garbage on start?

[Niels Ruiter]

Hi Brian,

What is in your startnos file?

# Jnos start file
cd /home/pd9q/jnos
sleep 2
rm -f /home/pd9q/jnos/spool/mqueue/*.lck 2> /dev/null
rm -f /home/pd9q/jnos/jnos/spool/mail/*.lck 2> /dev/null
sleep 1
TZ='Europe/Amsterdam'; export TZ
export TERM=linux
exec ./jnos2.0m.1rc -g2 -f nos.cfg -d  </dev/tty2>/dev/tty2 2>&1

Try this.....

sudo ./startnos

Use "Conspy" to look at the /dev/tty2. 
"sudo apt-get install conspy"
"sudo conspy 2"

And hit [esc] a couple of time`s to exit conspy

73 Niels PD9Q
https://packet-radio.net


-----Original Message-----
From: nos-bbs [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Brian Pasternak
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:39 AM
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] JNOS on Raspberry Pi - Keyboard garbage on start?

More update.

I've just tried Windows Bash, instead of Putty, with the same result.

My /etc/default/keyboard file looks correct. Removing the 'BACKSPACE=' line makes no difference.

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc104"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"


Best,
Brian, AB3RI

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 5:06 AM Brian Pasternak <brianpasternak at gmail.com> wrote:


	Hi Jay. Thanks for the suggestion. It appears that NCURSES is installed. 
	>>>
	libncurses5-dev is already the newest version (6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2).
	
	<<<

	I can start JNOS normally if I connect a keyboard and monitor directly to the Pi. It appears that it's only an issue when I connect to the Pi via Putty. I've even connected my workstation keyboard, a Logitech K270 directly up to the Pi and verified it's operation.

	I've played with the terminal settings in Putty, with no change.

	I'll keep plugging away with it to see if I can figure it out. If so, I'll post my findings.

	I'd like to use a Pi for JNOS, but I may use a spare PC. I'm partial to Ubuntu server. Are there recommendations on which Linux works best for JNOS? Should I stick with server, or would a workstation/desktop be better?

	Thanks,
	Brian, AB3RI


	On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 6:58 AM Jay Nugent <jjn at nuge.com> wrote:
	

		Greetings Brian,
		
		On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Brian Pasternak wrote:
		
		> Hello everyone. I'm attempting to install JNOS on a Raspberry Pi 3 using
		> N8AVX's HOWTO located at  http://www.mi-drg.org/jnos.html.
		>
		> Everything seems to install properly, but when I start JNOS using "sudo
		> ./startnos /dev/tty7" from Putty, I get garbage on the screen, see
		> http://delcorc.org/ham/Capture.PNG , whenever I hit any keys. I've
		> confirmed that the Localization Options and Keyboard Mappings are correct,
		> per the manual. However, if I connect my wireless keyboard and a monitor
		> directly up to the Pi, everything works well.
		>
		> Any advice?
		
		    I'm just waking up here, so my mind is still a bit fuzzy, but I'm 
		thinking that you may have missed installing a neccessary package.  I 
		think that JNOS required that the NCURSES package be installed so it can 
		format the screen correctly.
		
		       --- Jay  WB8TKL
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