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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:21:58 -0500 
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Terry Lambert' <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701023645@mail.sandvine.com>

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> 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

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