DEC3000/400 - D/UX3.2 & VT420

David Woyciesjes wrote: > > Doc Shipley wrote: > > > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > ...

> > 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

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... --