On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:00:51 -0700, "Raj, Ashok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Iam trying to use kdb with serial console on a IA64 box > >Iam using minicom to connect to the serial box from from another linux >system. > >When we enter the break key, somehow minicom seems to eat that away, and >not send it to the application... so iam not able to enter from the >minicom session.
The term 'break key' is misleading, there is a real break key and there is also a kdb break-in sequence which can be any set of characters, the default for the kdb break-in code is control-A. I am assuming that you mean control-A to enter kdb. Minicom uses control-A itself. If you want to pass control-A through minicom to the program you are talking to, press control-A twice. Do not use control-A F for kdb. That sends a real break code, which is not what kdb uses. As I say, the default kdb entry sequence is control-A but that can be changed. See kdb/kdbmain.c:kdb_serial_str for your kdb entry key. Heads up: control-A conflicts with gnu readline editting (start of line). kdb v5.0 (WIP) will use <escape>KDB by default.
