26 Aug
2002
26 Aug
'02
7:30 a.m.
David Woyciesjes wrote:
Doc Shipley wrote:
Cool... Well, lunchtime had arrived, and I had time to read through the
man page. Which provided me with enough info to add these two lines to
the end of the inittab file...
tty00:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty00 9600 vt100
tty01:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty01 9600 vt100
... and now I have 2 terminal sessions on my VT420, in addition to my
graphics console! Looks like I owe you a beer, Doc.
Now, for further playing on my part, to have the VT420 do the console
duties, that will probably require more fiddling in inittab, and at the
firmware level, too I presume. Or would hitting the S3 switch on the
back suffice? I'll have to shutdown and try that...
One oddity, though not a problem. Port 1 on the back, which becomes
console when there is no graphics present, shows up as tty01, and the
second (printer) port shows up as tty00. Not really a problem, as long
as I remember which is which when cabling things up and such...
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
That's what I was figuring, just haven't had the time
yet (Paying job
takes priority :) to flip through anydocs or anything... Thanks for the
starting point, Doc...
Has anyone done this successfully? I'll let you know how I make out...
-- Is it possible to run a VT420 on my DEC
3000/400 (running Digital
UNIX 3.2) while also having the PMAGB-B graphics console?
IIRC, I cannot use serial port 1, since the I'm using the graphics
console... I have the VT420 (9600,8,N,1) hooked to the printer port, using a
DEC H8575-A REV B MMJ adaptor. All I got was a ~ (tilde) when I started it
up. I also have a H8571-E, and a H8571-F adaptors. Should I be using ones of
those instead, with a gender changer?
If I understand what you want (a text login on the serial terminal,
in addition to the console on the PMAG-B?), you just need to turn on a
getty for the serial port. IIRC, there's a sample line in inittab.
Port 1 should be available as a tty login, even with the graphics
console. It just doesn't get turned on by the system.
Doc