David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> David Woyciesjes wrote:
> >
> > Doc Shipley wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is it possible to run a VT420 on my DEC 3000/400 (running Digital
> > > > UNIX 3.2) while also having the PMAGB-B graphics console?
> > > > ...
> > > If I understand what you want (a text login on the serial terminal,
> > > in addition to the console on the PMAG-B?), you just need to turn on a
> > > getty for the serial port. IIRC, there's a sample line in inittab.
> > > Port 1 should be available as a tty login, even with the graphics
> > > console. It just doesn't get turned on by the system.
> > >
> > > Doc
> Cool... Well, lunchtime had arrived, and I had time to read through the
> man page. Which provided me with enough info to add these two lines to
> the end of the inittab file...
>
> tty00:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty00 9600 vt100
> tty01:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty01 9600 vt100
>
> ... and now I have 2 terminal sessions on my VT420, in addition to my
> graphics console! Looks like I owe you a beer, Doc.
> Now, for further playing on my part, to have the VT420 do the console
> duties, that will probably require more fiddling in inittab, and at the
> firmware level, too I presume. Or would hitting the S3 switch on the
> back suffice? I'll have to shutdown and try that...
> One oddity, though not a problem. Port 1 on the back, which becomes
> console when there is no graphics present, shows up as tty01, and the
> second (printer) port shows up as tty00. Not really a problem, as long
> as I remember which is which when cabling things up and such...
>
> --
Well, all I had to do, was to flip the S3 switch on the back, and
comment out the tty01 line in /etc/inittab file...
Now to dig around in the docs, because I'm curious about how to get
more system messages to show on the VT420 console now...
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