Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-20 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Andor" == Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro console=ttyS0,9600n81 > Andor> oh jaysus, please remove the # infront of the line. then > Andor> it gets active. (now the line is a comment) >

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-19 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andor" == Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro console=ttyS0,9600n81 Andor> oh jaysus, please remove the # infront of the line. then Andor> it gets active. (now the line is a comment) No. Please look at how update-grub works. This is a lin

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-19 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sam Hartman wrote: > Basically what you want to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and look at > the #kopt line. You want to add something like console=ttyS0,9600n81. provided you install either unstable or testing and grub. OUr Finish friend seams to install stable which didn't

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question

2004-08-19 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Veli-Pekka" == Veli-Pekka Tatila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Veli-Pekka> Hi, I'm replying to my own message actually. This is Veli-Pekka> tutorial at hand. One final question, though, how can Veli-Pekka> I force Debian to continue using the serial port even Veli-Pekka> after

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Le mer 18 aoû 2004 à 16:19:07 +0200, Andor Demarteau a tapoté sur son clavier : > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > > How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as > > 115000 bits or something. > yes, modern serial device can go up to that speed. > > I

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as > 115000 bits or something. yes, modern serial device can go up to that speed. I just looked into my inittab file and notice that the sample-line for serial terminals indeed

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Andor Demarteau wrote: advice you to try 38400 as well cause it's way faster then the 9600 and would make it easier to work. How high can you go with modern serial ports? I've seen choices as high as 115000 bits or something. well I suspect that the kernel you are using has serial-consoel enabeld

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Hi, > I'm replying to my own message actually. This is just a quick note to let > you know that after having substituted the small s with a capital one in > console=ttyS0, serial output now works as expected. This is highly cool, I > can see it

Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question (was: Serial Install ...)

2004-08-17 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Hi, I'm replying to my own message actually. This is just a quick note to let you know that after having substituted the small s with a capital one in console=ttyS0, serial output now works as expected. This is highly cool, I can see it slowly drawing the ASCII graphics on the virtual terminal s