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I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need to fix my problem. Running obsd 3.9 on one box & obsd 3.8 on an ancient p90. I connected my nullmodem cable to #1 serial connection on each box. I've got the regular suggested settings in ttys, that is: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure. I know about the security problem with 'secure' but this is just on my lan, for learning purposes. I also tried different baud rates and vt settings, but the same thing happens each time. After I connect from the client box with 'tip tty00' & I type 'set tty com0'on the other box, the display comes up on the client box really weird, spread out across the screen & wrapping, & more often than not, after a few minutes, it starts making a continuous alarm sound and you can't enter anything else in. I have gotten as far as logging in a couple of times, but not too many. Even after hitting ~. to disconnect, most of the time you can't reboot in the proper manner. It'll get as far as 'syncing' & that's it. It just hangs. One box are the other has to be reset & then the other box will finish syncing & reboot. My friend told me that problems like that usually are caused by the fifo, & that I should disable it, but I haven't figured out how to do it. I looked at GENERIC and see the pccom settings but nothing about disabling fifo. I did boot -c & saw pccom in there, but again, I don't know what to do about it. I was wondering too, if it's a problem between the video cards. vga1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Matrox MGA Millenium 2064W (Storm)" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "3DFX Interactive Voodoo3" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) But, from the looks of it, I don't see how. This message is already long, but if anyone wants me to put in both dmesgs, let me know. Thanks for any help, advice, links, etc, I can get to help me fix this. Denny White GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A iD4DBQFEwtzwy0Ty5RZE55oRAo7SAJjiGfcPEl4CuVitg36tMSHfXrEpAJ9xP2D1 dLlz5lm3LYnLvYyvQDv8XQ== =M3SL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
