David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:08:31AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> > David Cantrell wrote:
> >
> > > Right now I'm working on getting X to go on the new Ultra 60. I've
> > > discovered quite a few interesting things. Like you don't even need an
> > > XF86Config file if you use the Xsun, XsunMono, or Xsun24 servers. Plus
> >
> > But that also means no opportunity to configure things that would be
> > configured in there. That's what I ran into back when I was running
> > Redhat on a Sparc 5. I wanted to change the mouse configuration. But
> > there was no config file even being read in to do this.
>
> That's true, but with the way those devices work is they boot up in exactly
> one mode and color depth. To change that, you use fbcontrol, or something
> like that under Solaris and reboot. There are similar tools under Linux to
> set the framebuffer mode and color depth.
>
> As for the mouse, as far as I know it's an on/off type setting. If anyone
> knows otherwise, do tell.
There are other things like font paths and such.
> There's plenty of stuff that needs testing that's not under X. The serial
> console problem is definitely something that needs fixing. It's something
> that I'm working while other stuff builds, but I can't seem to figure out
> the best way to handle that. I suppose it could always spawn a getty on
> /dev/ttyS0 and maybe /dev/ttyS1, but that could lead to other issues.
> Know of a way to detect whether there's a real console or just a serial
> console?
I have an Intel ISP1100 with a serial console (BIOS also accessed via the
serial console. My lilo.conf for it looks like:
image=/boot/linux-2.4.0-test10-00
label=linux
append="ide0=dma console=tty0 console=ttyS1,9600"
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
Then my inittab has:
# define serial port logins
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
To bring up a login prompt on the serial port. I'd recommend even the Intel
version of Slackware have this in the install CD so that it's easier to do
an install on the ISP1100 if there's no video card in the machine. Since
the serial port may be unsafe on other hardware, there should be a separate
boot option to choose "serial" instead of the default "linux" for serial
ports.
Back to Sparc. A serial port, AFAIK, can be assumed to be present on a Sun
Sparc machine, so I think it is safe. What I'm not sure about is what will
happen if the video card is absent, and virtual consoles are also used, as
in console=tty0 and inittab entries. So even here, it may be best to have
a separe boot option named "serial" which boots with kernel parameters to
use the serial console.
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