Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:25:12 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [-CURRENT] Nothing more on the console? Message-ID: <20040406002512.A55266@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20040405204222.GA28987@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>; from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:42:22PM -0400 References: <20040405201500.GA28015@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200404052037.i35KbuG7012746@ludwigV.sources.org> <20040405204222.GA28987@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:42:22PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:37:56PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Monday 5 April 2004, at 16 h 15, the keyboard of Ken Smith > > <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote: > > > > > Do you get this initial PROM-related dialog at all? > > > > No, I get a complete silence :-( > > > > I'm afraid the only thing I've seen do that is hardware failure but > someone else might have a suggestion. > Some changes regarding console selection were commited last weekend (Creator cards using syscons(4) and uart(4) now should behave as expected when "keyboard" and "screen" are selected for input-device resp. output-device in the OpenFirmware but the keyboard is unplugged). However, if you don't get the firmware output at boot up on any of the potential console devices all I can think of is unfortunately a hardware problem, too.
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