From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704250838360.24504@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17967.29851.680497.648681@smtp.charter.net>
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?
No X on the machine. And this is a serial console that works fine with
2.6.21-rcX.
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2007-04-24 21:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-25 15:32 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-25 15:39 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-04-25 16:22 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-25 16:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-25 17:44 ` John Stoffel
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