From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 20:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C2637BF20 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA71180; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:59:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:59:46 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Preece Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot get dumb terminal to go. Message-ID: <20000306235946.G70609@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dmpreece@paradise.net.nz on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:12:02PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:12:02PM +1300, David Preece wrote: > GGNNN! Much gnashing of teeth here. > > The terminal in question (actually a Psion 5 emulating a VT100) is > hooked into sio0. Changing boot.config to be '-h' sends output to the > terminal, so I know it works. I've left all the settings at 9.6kbit > (8/1/no parity) and am currently trying with "RTS/CTS" and DCD is set. > > I've changed the line in /etc/ttys to be: > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure [snip] It's really strange that the boot messages work (the hard part), but you can't get a console on the terminal (the easy part). I've gotten this to work on several machines, but it always seemed to take some tweaking. My only real advice is that I always use vt220 emulation. That seemed to work best. I can't seem to find what emulation (if any) is used to do the boot info since that works for you. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message