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From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To: Vahe Khachikyan <vahe@fh-konstanz.de>
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Subject: Re: Serial Conection II. Was( Serial connection)
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In-Reply-To: <002e01c0cd99$f42ec4d0$6e70258d@vvl10.fh-konstanz.de>; from vahe@fh-konstanz.de on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:11:07PM +0100
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:11:07PM +0100, Vahe Khachikyan wrote:
> 3) I set the SRM variable 'console' to 'serial'. This affects the
> behavior of Alpha box at start up i.e I didn't get the SRM prompt on
> graphics console untill I press Enter key,  and I didn't get the ttyv0
> after FreeBSD boots.  I steel have other ttyvs.

This makes no sense to me -- you say you want to use a serial console,
yet you seem to have a "graphics console" equipment connected.  And since
you are talking about ttyv's that is also a "graphics" console thing.
WHICH is it you want???


> 4) There is another problem which makes me CRAZY. Getty don't want to
> grab the serial port when I set it to "on" in /etc/ttys. below is the
> line from /etc/ttys.  
>     "ttyd1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"  vt100   on  secure"

Why are you not using `ttyd0'?

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