On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:23:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From what I can tell, the global default kdb serial-port start string >is ctrl-A: > >kdb/kdbmain.c: line 223 >const char kdb_serial_str[] = "\001"; > >Unfortunately, I use (as surely others must) minicom to talk to the >serial port, and ctrl-A is the minicom attention character.
For minicom, type control-A twice. However that does not help when you are on a real serial console and you want to go to the start of the line in bash, that is also control-A. The number of time that I have tried to go to the start of the line and ended up in kdb ... >To work >around this, the ppc64 port traditionally used "startKDB" as the >serial string; but now that this is architecture generic code, >its a stickier issue ... One of the changes on my list for kdb v4.4 is to change kdb_serial_str to <escape>KDB. Distributions/users can patch it to whatever they want. --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
