Hi Mouse, everyone,

> > When a Sun machine doesn't have a keyboard or graphics card
> > connected, it will use ttya for it's [sic] console interface.  This
Hey, who's dropping [sic]'s into my emails, and why? ;)

> > would also happen if input and output-device are set to ttya instead
> > of screen and keyboard in the eeprom.
> 
> > Under NetBSD, this doesn't quite seem to work: On my IPC the ttya
> > will function as a console up to (and including) the kernel's
> > autodetecting and then, after two garbage characters, output to the
> > terminal stops.
> 
> You don't say which version of NetBSD.  I'm running slightly-post-1.2
> NetBSD/sparc on a headless IPC and it works Just Fine.  (Though
> admittedly, I do have the eeprom set to point to ttya; I'm not relying
> on it autoswitching because there's no keyboard.)

Sorry, you're right, I really should have added that info. The ipc runs
the complete snapshot-release from ftp.netbsd.org, so it's pretty close
to current.

> I haven't tried anything newer on a headless SPARC of any stripe, at
> least not yet.
> 
> > Running headless also prevents you from getting a login-prompt on
> > ttya, apparently.
> 
> Again, news to me.  I get login promts Just Fine, though they're on
> /dev/console, not /dev/ttya (same hardware, different /dev entry).

I'm going to decapitate the rest of my suns in the coming days, and 
hope to be able to give data on ELC, IPC, SLC. (yes, I have a few too
many of them right now ;) 

I'll also try to get a newer (current) and older (1.2) kernel on the
machine, to see what difference it makes. And try the trick with the
DTR, too... cuz right now, I definetly can't login on the tty's (Both!)
of the IPC.

Happy hacking, Paul.
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