Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/07/01 22:40, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Is there any reason why boot(8) man page isn't available on arm64? Because it is MD (machine-dependent, i.e. particular to the machine architecture) and only versions for amd64/i386/hppa/landisk have been written/committed so far. The boot(8) pages are ke

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:05:20PM BST, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020/07/01 12:04, Scott Seekamp wrote: > > I just tested on a pi4 and it worked beautifully. /etc/boot.conf > > Well that's quite a surprise, with set tty fb0 the framebuffer console > is working nicely (which I didn't expect) *a

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/07/01 12:04, Scott Seekamp wrote: > I just tested on a pi4 and it worked beautifully. /etc/boot.conf Well that's quite a surprise, with set tty fb0 the framebuffer console is working nicely (which I didn't expect) *and* X is also working and pretty responsive (which I _really_ didn't expec

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Unicorn
On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 19:42 +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > unic...@disroot.org (Unicorn), 2020.07.01 (Wed) 17:36 (CEST): > > > $ echo "set tty fb0" >> boot.conf(8) > > > > Where is that meant to go? I'd appreciate a bit of explanation, > > especially since I don't seem to have that manpage. :) >

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Tim Leslie
Can this be integrated into the install process? The default terminal is solicited directly there On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 2:05 PM Scott Seekamp wrote: > I just tested on a pi4 and it worked beautifully. /etc/boot.conf > > Scott > > > On Jul 1, 2020, at 11:43, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > > > > unic.

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Scott Seekamp
I just tested on a pi4 and it worked beautifully. /etc/boot.conf Scott > On Jul 1, 2020, at 11:43, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > > unic...@disroot.org (Unicorn), 2020.07.01 (Wed) 17:36 (CEST): >>> $ echo "set tty fb0" >> boot.conf(8) >> >> Where is that meant to go? I'd appreciate a bit of explanat

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
unic...@disroot.org (Unicorn), 2020.07.01 (Wed) 17:36 (CEST): > > $ echo "set tty fb0" >> boot.conf(8) > > Where is that meant to go? I'd appreciate a bit of explanation, > especially since I don't seem to have that manpage. :) ouch! boot.conf(8) doesn't seem to exist on arm64. (apropos boot.conf

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Unicorn
> $ echo "set tty fb0" >> boot.conf(8) Where is that meant to go? I'd appreciate a bit of explanation, especially since I don't seem to have that manpage. :)

Re: output to hdmi monitor across power cycles

2020-07-01 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
patric...@yhk.name (Patrick), 2020.06.27 (Sat) 02:48 (CEST): > Hello ! Now that armv7 boards can output to hdmi monitors by typing "set > tty fb0" at the boot prompt via a serial connection from another machine, > how can I save this tty setting on the board such that I can use the hdmi > monitor