On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:52:56PM +0800, Supriyo Chatterjea wrote:
> When my Assabet board starts up, I get to see the
> entire booting up process on my desktop through
> minicom.
>
> 1. Why is it that the screen on the Assabet doesn't
> show anything? It only shows the Penguin and the login
> prompt after the booting up process has been
> completed.
Because the console is on the serial port, not on the framebuffer
device.
> 2. Would it be possible to display the commands I type
> in minicom to be displayed on the Assabet screen
> itself? How can that be done?
You could write an application that copies all I/O to the LCD. It's not
trivial, have a look at the "screen" source (go to packages.debian.org
to find it).
Erik
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