On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Specifically, what problems were you having with the serial console? It > could have been something simple, like /dev/console being a symlink rather > than an actual character device. Outside of it being a 80x24 screen, it's > been working beautifully for me with c-kermit as the 'client'. >
The Sun serial console -- and by that I don't mean "use a serial device to connect to the computer's serial port", I mean "use the Sun's physical console, but don't drive the frambuffer, instead just talk to the PROM" -- is just *bad*. It runs at 19,200 baud. It's not *anything* like a vt100. It's meant to be used only by the PROM interface itself (which is the ultimate in minimalism; it's written & extensible in FORTH), with the assumption that any program (i.e., linux, solaris) will drive the graphics hardware in graphics mode. Ari
