From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 11:22: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BA337B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E5543FBD for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:22:00 -0500 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Terry Lambert' , Attila Nagy Cc: Lucky Green , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:21:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com] ... > > 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). FYI, I've found that running under 'screen' fixes the problem with the odd escape sequences. One type of system we have puts out an escape sequence that is escape followed by 12 [. Not sure what that is :) The other works just great, except it switches to black on black just as it switches to the OS :) --don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message