From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992821AbXDYQW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992823AbXDYQW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:59 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:38205 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992821AbXDYQW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17967.32856.616216.761311@smtp.charter.net> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:48 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: John Stoffel , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier In-Reply-To: References: <20070424130601.4ab89d54.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424132740.e4bdf391.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424134325.f71460af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424141826.952d2d32.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <17967.29851.680497.648681@smtp.charter.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter writes: Christoph> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, John Stoffel wrote: Christoph> I use a serial console on my x86_84 box. For a while now I Christoph> can see all output but I cannot type any Christoph> characters. /dev/console broke? >> >> I've sorta seen this problem too, but with gdm. If I have my kernel >> line setup like this: >> >> ... console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 >> >> I have to stop and restart gdm (or switch to the XDMCP chooser and >> back) to get keyoard access. Wierd. >> Christoph> Simple WAR is to ssh into the box and I was usually too Christoph> focused on other issues to do something about it. >> >> Are you trying to access an X login prompter, or just a plain Virtual >> Console tty? Christoph> No X on the machine. And this is a serial console that Christoph> works fine with 2.6.21-rcX. Ok, no idea then. It's working for me in 2.6.21-rc7 as long as I don't have more than one console= entry in my kernel boot args. John