Subject: Re: vt320 as console?
To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/22/1996 18:06:14
> On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, behind brown eyes wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to use a vt320 as the console on my NetBSD/sparc Sun 4/330. The
> > terminal works fine until init kicks in (that is, until just after "root on 
> > sd0a" is printed), and then spits out garbage. Looking in /var/log/messages,
> 
> 	I had the same problem when I used my PC as a console for my 
> 4/110.  It appears that after this point in the init, the character 
> stream switches from 8N1 to 7E1 (change to 7E1 after the garbage appears 
> and you'll be able to read it) and then back to 8N1.  I have no idea 
> what's causing this, but it seems to work fine on my system once it gets 
> past this point.

the default tty settings, in <sys/ttydefaults>, are the blame...



chris