Subject: Re: No console no screen diskless install
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/18/2005 20:07:29
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:22:58AM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> It doesn't care if the screen is attached -- it assumes that if there is
> a framebuffer present, you have a screen.  And of course, if the KB is
> plugged in, you have a KB.
> 
> If it doesn't find a KB, it's not going to use the screen unless you
> explicitly tell it
> 
> 	input-device=ttya
> 	output-device=screen
> 
> and I'm not even sure how reliable that would be...
> 
> [we had a reverse setup, i.e. input-device=keyboard output-device=ttya
> at a workplace in one of my previous lives.]

Hum, as everybody seems to tell that the OFW won't try to detect the screen,
maybe the system where I've seen this had this setup.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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