On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 09:51:38PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> 
> 	If I type "consdev com0" at the (i386) bootblocks it causes the kernel
> to boot with the console set to the serial port.  Once I've got a /dev, 
> shouldn't anything written to /dev/console end up going out that serial
> port?

Yes

>  It doesn't seem to work.

What, exactly, doesn't work ?

>  However, /dev/tty00 works as expected.
> Also, xconsole sees stuff written to /dev/console.  Is this how it's
> supposed to work?  I thought I remembered it behaving differently.

Yes, this is the purpose of xconsole. Once xconsole is started, stuff
written to /dev/console won't appear on the tty any more.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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