SRM console doesnt accept any input

[Heid Oliver]

Weird: I can "set console" via a terminal at the serial port (it was still
set to "graphics"), and the output
device indeed changes accordingly between screen and serial port. But though
the keyboard seems ok (it works once
linux is booting), the srm input device stays the serial port. I also
checked the other SRM variables, but they
are identical to another UP2k+ without this problem.

Oliver
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Brito [mailto:ntbrito at fc.up.pt]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 18:01
To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: SRM console doesnt accept any input


if you don't connect a neither a monitor nor a keyboard, and if you 
connect a vt100 terminal to the serial port the machine will default to it.

you can "set console serial" at the srm prompt...

regards,
nelson

Nelson de Brito
http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/ntbrito




Alvin Starr wrote:

> Heid Oliver wrote:
>
>> I'll give it a try. OTOH, the keyboard does work when linux is up,
>> or when I plug it into another alpha...
>>
>> Oliver
>>  
>>
> have you tried  the serial port. You can likely get at the SRM that 
> way and change the NVRAM. There is a way to set the SRM to use either 
> serial ports or the VGA card but of hand I don't remember it.
>

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