At 4:05 PM -0500 1/31/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:55:55PM -0800, James Tuman Nelson wrote:
> > If I "setenv output-device ttya" and "setenv input-device kbd" in OF, I
> > get output info sent to ttya, and I can input info from the keyboard
> > through kbd.  During boot of netbsd, I get boot info output to ttya,
> > displaying information to "zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)" and
> > "zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1".  Thereafter, I get nothing on the zterm
> > terminal through ttya, neither can I input commands through kbd, or
> > ttya.  I have to hardware reboot.
>
>Uh... are you sure?
>
>You *should* be able to log in and issue a shutdown -r even blindly,
>and you shouldn't be losing access through the tty anyway... are you
>sure you've got ZTerm configured properly with regard to baud rate
>and so forth?
>
>(I've booted ornery OF 2.x 6500s this way, and I *think* I've done
>it with OF 1.0.5 machines, but I'm not positive.)

As I said I think this is independent of the display issue, but it 
*may* be that when you think think the machine looses output via the 
serial line all that's really happening is the baud rate is being 
changed.


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