From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 14 11:10:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C18153FC for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA28793; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:10:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA24911; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:10:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:10:53 -0400 (EDT) To: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console speed In-Reply-To: <87k8s340pg.fsf_-_@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> References: <14220.39455.884048.682845@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <87k8s340pg.fsf_-_@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14220.53478.159956.573540@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Douglas K. Rand writes: > Andrew> I suspect that things are working, but that the console output > Andrew> is going to an unexpected place, so make sure the SRM console > Andrew> setting matches reality. Eg, if you're running on a graphics > Andrew> head, do 'set console graphics' & if you're with a serial > Andrew> console, do 'set console serial' from the SRM console prompt > Andrew> (>>> ) > > Your response reminds me of an annoying problem we have with a Digital > 600au Personal Workstation. I've got the serial console working, but I > cannot figure out how to get the speed up above 9600 baud. It is > annoying accessing the console at this speed. (But not enough so that > I have actually fixed the problem yet.) > > Might you be able to shed some light? Perhaps. We run at 9600 baud because that's what the SRM console runs at by default (not sure if you can even change that), and I've never even thought about how to change it. Have you tried bumping up comcnrate in sys/alpha/alpha/dec_st550.c? That's the first thing I'd look at.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message