Re: Bug#364637: I see, change in 8250.c between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 - WAS: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637

2006-05-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:37:24AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ? > > > > > > Attaching the full

I see, change in 8250.c between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 - WAS: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637

2006-05-18 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ? > > > > Attaching the full log. The isa stuff is probably related to the graphic card. > > > > > Serial: 8250/16550 d

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:16:34AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ? > > > > Attaching the full log. The isa stuff is probably related to the graphic > > card. > > > > > Serial:

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ? > > Attaching the full log. The isa stuff is probably related to the graphic card. > > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled > pmac_zilog

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
give me a quick overview so I can > > > figure out how to do it? > > > > the debian-installer documentation used to have some (incomplete) > guidelines > > to do this, not sure where they are now. The s390 installer guide sahould > help > > you since they hav

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
used to have some (incomplete) guidelines > to do this, not sure where they are now. The s390 installer guide sahould help > you since they have neither display nor serial console. > > > I know SuSE provides this via linuxrc, but I was not aware that debian > > did s

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
gt; > Is this in the debian docs, or is there a reference somewhere to how > to do it? If not, can you just give me a quick overview so I can > figure out how to do it? the debian-installer documentation used to have some (incomplete) guidelines to do this, not sure where they are no

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Do you have a reference the broken serial driver? Is it specific > > to 2.6.16-1? > > I don't remember, now that i think of it, it is possible you who mentioned it. > > Can you try booting a d-i image using the net-console trick,and a

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > What hardware do you have ? I have an XServer dual G5 (RackMac3,1), and i just > > > did an installation without problem, using today's daily build. > > > > Xserve G5 dual 2GHz (RackMac3,1) cluster node, headless > > > > Does

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > > > What hardware do you have ? I have an XServer dual G5 (RackMac3,1), > and i just > > > > did an installation without problem, using today's

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:33:56AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:18:07AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford > [Contr] wrote: > > > Sven > > > > > > I tried this latest netboot64 image, but I get

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:18:07AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > > Sven > > > > I tried this latest netboot64 image, but I get the same behavior as with > > the 2006-04-23 image, which I submitted a bug report for (bug 36463

no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
Sven I tried this latest netboot64 image, but I get the same behavior as with the 2006-04-23 image, which I submitted a bug report for (bug 364637). The boot hangs at 'Trying to im_free nonexistent area (d800820d7000)' In the bug report, I included the whole console log. Should I submit anot

Re: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637 - WAS: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:18:07AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > Sven > > I tried this latest netboot64 image, but I get the same behavior as with > the 2006-04-23 image, which I submitted a bug report for (bug 364637). > > The boot hangs at 'Trying to im_free nonexistent ar

serial console handling changed in 2.6.16-1?

2006-04-25 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port . . . It seems to me that I should not be getting the pmac_zilog error about registering the serial device. Has something changed in the way the serial console is handled between these two v

Re: debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:34:14AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Try installing with floppies?

debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Try installing with floppies? > > > > Trying my own advice :-) on a Performa 5440. > > > > > http://peopl

Re: serial console

2005-10-06 Thread Martin Habets
Sorry, no clue. Unless there is a script earlier than /etc/rcS.d/S00e* Martin On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:28:40PM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: > This works. Notice that the correct syntax is "stty -F /dev/tts/0 115200 > -evenp". > > I put it as /etc/rcS.d/S00etc-setserial. However, there is still lit

Re: serial console

2005-10-05 Thread KokHow Teh
Hi; On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:06:16AM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: >> If the init scripts don't set the tty speed it will probably default to >> 9600n8. Maybe adding an stty early on will help. >> >> I need more help on this. Do you refer to sbin/init or some scripts >> in /etc/ folder? Where

Re: serial console

2005-10-05 Thread Martin Habets
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:06:16AM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: > If the init scripts don't set the tty speed it will probably default to > 9600n8. Maybe adding an stty early on will help. > > I need more help on this. Do you refer to sbin/init or some scripts > in /etc/ folder? Where should I s

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread KokHow Teh
Hi; I rebuild the kernel with BOOTX_TEXT set and tried with 4 types of command lines and all of them gives good serial console printout during bootup until the point when it prints out "Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k init 4k prep". After that, the serial console output is g

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread KokHow Teh
Hi; I rebuild the kernel with BOOTX_TEXT set and tried with 4 types of command lines and all of them gives good serial console printout during bootup until the point when it prints out "Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k init 4k prep". After that, the serial console output is g

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Martin Habets
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:56:54PM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: > When I pass "console=tts/0,115200n8" to the kernel, I don't get any > console output until the login prompt which I set to 115200 in > /etc/inittab. Make sure you have the BOOTX_TEXT config option set. > This is what I end

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
that you probably need to boot from uboot, and boot your own kernel to make this work, this is what you did, right ? Did you compile in the serial console and such ? but ttyS0 is definitively the way to go. On my powerquicc I based board (using the TQ components MPC862 based sub-board), i have :

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello KokHow, KokHow Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > I have debian linux running on my PQ2FADS-ZU with devfs and serial > driver compiled in. I have read Documentation/serial-console.txt and I have > tried both passing "console=" option as well as without passing that to the > kernel

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
a quick google http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=PQ2FADS_ZU gets my nomination for 'obscure hardware to run linux on' award. this link may also be pertinant http://www.lynuxworks.com/support/bluecat/docs/0584-00-bcl41_pq2fads_bsg.pdf Dean Sven Luther wrote: On

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:56:54PM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: > Hi; > I have debian linux running on my PQ2FADS-ZU with devfs and serial That is a funny one, what is a PQ2FADS-ZU ? I never heard of anyone running debian on such a thing. > driver compiled in. I have read Documentation/serial-c

serial console

2005-10-04 Thread KokHow Teh
½ï¿½.�...��������.��.�...�...���..�..�...���..�.�.��.��.....��[42;124H. My question is, how can I get a complete serial console output all the way from bootup to the login prompt? I am missing something. It is either the kernel co

Re: Re: Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2005-06-28 Thread Schmieg, Peter
Hello Patrick, can you use the gxt3000p grafik card on the 43P/150 best regards Peter Dipl. Ing.(FH) Peter Schmieg System Administrator RECARO Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG Tel:+49 791 503-7205 Fax:+49 791 503-7262 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Success: serial console works...

2004-10-07 Thread Simon Vallet
k the "linux" button, > and PRESTO! my kermit terminal in Mac OS on the 68k machine registers > output from my G3. You might want to try 38400 bauds : it is faster, and will also get you the OF prompt at the serial console. > Unfortunately, I get to where it says "Freeing

Re: Success: serial console works...

2004-10-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations on getting that far! I didn't know the part about having to compile in the serial console, so I haven't gotten even to that point. You've given me hope. Please keep all of us on the mailing-list up-to-date on your progress! Enjoy! Rick On Wednesday, October

Success: serial console works...

2004-10-06 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all! A couple of weeks ago I was working with trying to get my Beige G3/266 DT to do serial output to serial console. I finally got it right, after much reading, and lots of help from this list! I don't know if changing the nvram had anything to with it, but I setenv (or whateve

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
sole=ttyS0,38400n8 [...]" > 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- I > still don't have the output of rc scripts on my serial console (If you > get this right I'll be happy to know). Finally OK -- see above : don't forget to put the cons

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Marc
Op 24-sep-04 om 02:17 heeft Russell Hires het volgende geschreven: Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with Boot

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:57:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: } On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: } >In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my } >Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and } >running MacOS X. I

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and running MacOS X. I use minicom on the Mac and have set up quik, not BootX, to allow m

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:54:49AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I've got two Macs connected with a null-modem cable. Mini-DIN-8 > null modem cables are hard to find. Try Belkin, they make cables > to order. I borrowed mine from a friend who is a Mac guru. If you > want to use an x86 box for t

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
On 24 Sep 2004 15:32:29 +0200 Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you open several consoles, as in "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600", > kernel output goes to all of them, but output written to /dev/console > only goes to the last one. Hope that helps. That may be the hint : I do open

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Simon Vallet writes: > > 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- > > I still don't have the output of rc scripts on my serial console (If > > you get this right I'll be happy to know). &

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Simon Vallet writes: > 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- > I still don't have the output of rc scripts on my serial console (If > you get this right I'll be happy to know). If you open several consoles, as in "console=tty0 conso

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:03:14AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: } On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 02:08 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: } >I haven't tried it on ppc, but I use it on 68k macs sometimes. I usually } >use ZTerm on another mac and a standard mac printer cable for the } >connection. } } Don't you

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
t change very much between machines) 2. Get the kernel to talk to the serial port : compile it with the mentioned options, and add a corresponding command line parameter, e.g console=ttyS0,38400..., as said before 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- I still d

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:46, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Russell Hires writes: > > > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > [...] > > What about a 2.4.27 kernel? I don't have those options

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Russell Hires writes: > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. [...] > What about a 2.4.27 kernel? I don't have those options in my .config... Ah, sorry. The original post asked for a 2.6 ker

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
uot;? That way when I search for this again, someone will have something useful for me to find! I've searched and searched and searched, and here I am, asking questions. > > By the way, the Mac's Open Firmware serial console is on the > > "modem" port, not the "

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:29:33AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:21, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Brad Boyer writes: > > > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > > > > Such

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:21, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Brad Boyer writes: > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > > Such as, the pre-packaged Debian kernels. If you build the kernel > you

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
gt; By the way, the Mac's Open Firmware serial console is on the > "modem" port, not the "printer" port of the mac. This is configurable, just set OF's 'output-device' and 'input-device' accordingly. Simon -- Simon Vallet Due to massive spam, the

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread david
.I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give > > console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to > > some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX > > and either my printer port and printer cable to

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 08:17 PM, Russell Hires wrote: Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with Boot

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 02:08 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: I haven't tried it on ppc, but I use it on 68k macs sometimes. I usually use ZTerm on another mac and a standard mac printer cable for the connection. Don't you need a null-modem cable? Or is there something I don't know about

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Brad Boyer writes: > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. Such as, the pre-packaged Debian kernels. If you build the kernel yourself, the necessary options are CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:17:42PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give > console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to > some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this wi

Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-23 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX and either my printer port and printer cable to another mac running

Beige G3 serial console install?

2004-04-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So I picked up a beige G3 that I want to install debian on. As the video seems to be somewhat foobar'd (works fine in software, but produces unreadable output), I need to do a serial console install. Is there any way to do this? Every premade bootable image I've tried so far wa

Re: Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:32, Leigh Brown wrote: [snip] > The general way is to power off, unplug (or plug in if not plugged in) > the mouse or keyboard, and power on again. The firmware should detect > the configuration change and prompt on all detected consoles (serial, > GUI) which one to use.

Re: Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Leigh Brown
Patrick said: > Apologies if this is too much OT. I am still trying to get my 43p-150 to > boot. A while back I had removed the graphics card (GXT3000) and worked > through the console since then. Last night I put it back in and now > OpenFirmware will no longer ask me if I want to use the console

Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick
Hi all, Apologies if this is too much OT. I am still trying to get my 43p-150 to boot. A while back I had removed the graphics card (GXT3000) and worked through the console since then. Last night I put it back in and now OpenFirmware will no longer ask me if I want to use the console or the video

Re: Bug#122750: serial console trouble

2001-12-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > >I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked > >/target/etc/securetty right after the installation of base, before > >even rebooting, and verified that ttyS0 is included there. > > Thanks for checking

Re: Bug#122750: serial console trouble

2001-12-20 Thread Phil Blundell
Chris Tillman wrote: >I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked >/target/etc/securetty right after the installation of base, before >even rebooting, and verified that ttyS0 is included there. Thanks for checking this out. Are you saying that the bug didn't happen for you, or that the f

Re: Bug#122750: serial console trouble

2001-12-19 Thread Chris Tillman
; Can someone with a serial console try to reproduce the problem, and see > if the files have the correct contents immediately after configuring the > base system, and/or if there is any unusual output on the log terminal? I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked /target/etc

Re: headless G4 Cube with serial console

2001-11-04 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:28:54PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > CONFIG_PPC_RTC requires adb support? are you sure? You're right -- on the Cube it needs CONFIG_ADB_PMU (the config help text refers only to Powerbooks, which confused me) but not CONFIG_ADB. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u

Re: headless G4 Cube with serial console

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:17:17PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > and the kernel boot messages appear there, but the yaboot prompt still > appeared on the monitor. I fixed this by replacing the ofboot this is because i had to force it in the ofboot script, otherwise apple's braindamaged OF happil

Re: headless G4 Cube with serial console

2001-11-03 Thread Laurent de Segur
t; Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:17:17 -0500 > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: headless G4 Cube with serial console > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > It's a great server -- small, quiet, and very stylish. > > -- > Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

headless G4 Cube with serial console

2001-11-03 Thread Eric C. Cooper
I've set up a G4 Cube as a headless server with a serial console. In case it's useful to others, here's what I did. I got a CubePort from Griffin Technology (http://www.griffintechnology.com). This replaces the internal modem with a standard Mac serial connector on the panel, c