Ah, I thought you meant hardware upgrade, My apologies.
----- Original Message ----- From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeramy B Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian GNU/Linux PPC <[email protected]>; <recipient list not shown: ;> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:27 AM Subject: Re: serial port screw up > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jeramy B Smith wrote: > > What was your upgrade? Possible resource conflict? When the kernel talks to > > apt-get update & upgrade, of course :-) > > > the conflicting device you get garbage maybe? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Debian GNU/Linux PPC <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 5:03 PM > > Subject: serial port screw up > > > > > > > > > > Since I upgraded my system after three weeks of inactivity and rebooted > > after > > > that, my serial port (NS16550 type) is screwed up: I get weird characters > > > instead of the login prompt on my terminal. However, I can login, and > > > everything I type is echoed correctly. `cat'ing a file to /dev/ttyS0 gives > > > garbage, too. > > > > > > It's not a baud problem. Also kernel messages are displayed correctly > > (using > > > console=ttyS0). During the first part of the boot up, boot up messages > > (from > > > init) are displayed correctly. Suddenly I start getting garbage. > > > > > > I'll try to find out which of the startup scripts causes the problem. if > > > someone else already have an idea, I'd be glad to hear... > > Greetings, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ > Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
