Folks,
  Can someone here tell me what the SunOS4 equivalent of this is?
I've been dealing with that "mode switcharoo" forever...

                            -Dave McGuire
                             Systems Engineer
                             Digital Express Group, Incorporated
                             mcguire@digex.net


On January 22, you wrote:
> 	You want to look in /sys/sys/ttydefaults.h and change the 
> 	TTYDEF_CFLAG line to something like
> 
> #define TTYDEF_CFLAG    (CREAD | CS8 | HUPCL)
> 
> 	otherwise the kernel switched into 7E1 when it initialises the
> 	serial ports (up till thn its been using the prom to output the
> 	messages).
> 
> 	(About the only local patch I _absolutely_ needed when running
> 	NetBSD.
> 	If you boot single user you can mount /usr & run reset to get
> 	the tty sane again, but you cant see to run fsck first,	so its
> 	not a happy thing to do. Its no doubt in a PR somewhere, but
> 	not having to keep it locally was a pleasant bonus from my move
> 	to openbsd :)
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Mike Frisch wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Mike.
> > 
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