From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 25 5:22:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C5B37B719; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:22:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14hATp-0002zb-00; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:22:49 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f2PDPRG95493; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:25:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:25:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <20010325152527.D95252@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 06:04:11PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 06:04:11PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:39:57PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I sure wish I knew what happened here, but at some point past 4.2, > > /dev/console got broken for Alpha 8200s. > > This past week, I committed a change that removed the getty off of the > console device, and put one on ttyd0. This was due to people saying they > were getting garbage on their consoles. I never saw this on my > Miata-MX5, or AS250. But others said they did. Andrew (and Mike Smith) I saw that on Multia, MX5 and DS20. Don't shoot me.. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message