From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 29 8:15:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bsdhome.dyndns.org (unknown [24.25.2.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3157937B42C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: from vger.bsdhome.com (vger [192.168.220.2]) by bsdhome.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3TFFQJ73939; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:15:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by vger.bsdhome.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3TFFQx48158; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:15:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:15:25 -0400 From: Brian Dean To: leclercn@videotron.ca Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-Stable, serial terminals problem Message-ID: <20010429111525.B47740@vger.bsdhome.com> References: <3AEC256F.9040105@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AEC256F.9040105@videotron.ca>; from nospam@videotron.ca on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:30:07AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:30:07AM -0400, tcn wrote: > Since the upgrade, my terminals are screwed. To get a proper login > prompt, I had to modify gettytab to force unbuffered output (ub). The > prompt is ok now but once I log on, everything is screwed again. I > tried in 300 bps to check if there was any communication problems and I > am still missing a lot of chars. (When I say screwed, I mean it looks > like it is missing a lot of chars. I don't get garbage) I am having > the very same problem with my alpha machine. The behaviour is inidicative of hardware flow not being enabled for the session. Try adding "hw:" to the end of your gettytab entry to turn it on. See gettytab(5) for the complete list of controlling options. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message