Subject: Re: DEC 3000/300
To: Dave Brown <dave@bagpuss.nu>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/17/2002 11:12:24
ARC or SRM should fall back to serial console in the event that it can't
detect a keyboard.  So even if you have a graphics board in your machine,
all you have to do is unplug the keyboard and the system will fall back to
serial.


> When I got rid of the graphical console on my mine, I simply had to plug the
> terminal in and set it for 9600/N/8/1.  Did not need to configure anything at
> all.  Simply turned it on and the console prompted appeared (after POST).
>
> Dave.
>
> Quoting Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it:
>
> >
> > anyone of you knows how to enable serial console instead of graphics
> > console on dec 3000?
> > I have no way to go on graphic console now I have a working DEC 3000
> > without monitor.
> >
> > thanks much
> >
> >
> > Rick
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