From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 24 18: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C78137B71D for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:04:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2P24C307739; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:04:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:39:57PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) wasn't happy with the commit I made that put the getty on the console device. I liked having the getty on the console device, as you *always* had a getty no matter what type of console you had, and no matter if you changed the type of console post-install. How does NetBSD/Alpha handle this? IIRC NetBSD/Sparc runs a getty on the console device and things Just Work. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message