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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: sio && serial console in -current?
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Good guess, I shouldn't wonder, but:
quarm.feral.com > diff /etc/rc.serial /usr/src/etc/
quarm.feral.com > 



On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > Something wierd has been happening lately- the serial console on my i386
> > machine works fine up until init is forked.. THen the output is mangled, and
> > one gets replicated and/or mangled stuff. On a reboot I'm getthing things
> > like:
> > 
> > WWWWWaaaaaiiiiitttttiiiiinnnnnggggg     (((((mmmmmaaaaaxxxxx     6666600000
> > ssssseeeeecccccooooonnnnndddddsssss)))))     fffffooooorrrrr
> > sssssyyyyysssssttttteeeeemmmmm     ppppprrrrroooooccccceeeeessssssssss
> > `````bbbbbuuuuufffffdddddaaaaaeeeeemmmmmooooonnnnn'''''     tttttooooo
> > ssssstttttoooooppppp...............ssssstttttoooooppppppppppeeeeeddddd
> 
> This may be caused by inconsistent settings in /etc/rc.serial.
> /etc/rc.serial should rarely be changed from its default of doing nothing.
> 
> Bruce
> 



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