From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:22:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:22:36 -0400 Received: from [64.156.208.74] ([64.156.208.74]:36519 "EHLO sol.compendium-tech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:22:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:22:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Can I have a serial display output and a kbd PS/2 input? In-Reply-To: <9l0n95$1me$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <001b01c12194$a34a3370$66011ec0@frank>, > Frank Torres wrote: > >Sorry to be insistent in this point, but perhaps requesting the problem this > >way someone figures out what I am trying to do. > >The display is already configured and sending getty line from inittab waits > >for an input from serial so it doesn't work. > >Any other ideas? This is my last try. > > If you want /dev/console to behave so that it sends output to the > serial device yet takes input from the PC keyboard, no, that cannot > be done. Right now /dev/console can be associated with only one > device for both input and output at the same time. > > Output from kernel printk's does go to all console devices though. Well, as a sleightly more expensive solution, you could build a Sun keyboard to serial adapter. Somewhere on the SuSE webpage there is instructions on how to do this. IIRC, the keyboard only uses the RxD pin on the serial port so you would be free to use the TxD pin for your serial LCD. The schematic can be had here: http://www.suse.cz/development/input/adapters good luck, and hope this is of some use to you. Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------