Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:36:34 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, "" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302041031520.29064-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <3E3EBE8E.136CB7AF@mindspring.com> References: <001301c2cb61$cbd70d90$6601a8c0@VAIO650> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302030956280.29064-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> <3E3EA95B.4CA321B0@mindspring.com> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302031942290.29064-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> <3E3EBE8E.136CB7AF@mindspring.com>
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Hello, > The sense of the -P option was changed, and it makes it so you have to > do extra work to get the console driver to do the right thing from > inside FreeBSD proper, on a machine that could have its keyboard removed > (or not). It's because the -h is implied, and it's a toggle. Oh, I see now. I didn't even noticed that option. > Anyway, it was a particular problem with the SuperMicro motherboards > with the AMI BIOS that's been the subject of the rest of this discussion > (i.e. the ones that kick out the escape sequence at the end, for no good > reason, except to screw up non-monochrome VTxxx emulators, and make it > hard to use a UNIX box as the serial console). If I understood correctly, the original post was indeed a misunderstanding about the console redirection of the BIOS, which is only effective until the kernel boots. From that point one must enable the serial console in kernel and I think this is what was omitted. Don't know. I remember that I had no special problems with my L440GX when last tried this, only the above one (enable serial console, which is trivial). Anyways, thanks for the clarification! ----------[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]---------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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