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Subject: Re: [-CURRENT] Nothing more on the console?
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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.