From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 4 1:36:38 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 DC76837B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:36:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A32BE43F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 2048 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Feb 2003 09:36:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 09:36:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:36:34 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy To: Terry Lambert Cc: Lucky Green , "" Subject: Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode In-Reply-To: <3E3EBE8E.136CB7AF@mindspring.com> Message-ID: References: <001301c2cb61$cbd70d90$6601a8c0@VAIO650> <3E3EA95B.4CA321B0@mindspring.com> <3E3EBE8E.136CB7AF@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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