> At 08:14 PM 11/7/99 +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> >They should work in the 1.4 releases, but it is currently broken in
> >-current. There is even a working X server available for it, people
> >have told me :-) I plan to rewrite the driver for it so that it uses
> >wscons, this is probably one of my nearest vax projects.
> 
> Cool, sort of. The problem with wscons is that it means you are the 
> console. I've had quite a bit of grief trying to get a FreeBSD box to have 
> a graphic adapter _and_ have the console be the serial port rather than the 
> keyboard/mouse. What I'm trying to have is a remotely accessible display 
> screen that I can boot/reboot etc from a tip line. So if you do rewrite in 
> wscons please allow me to configure it so that it is configured but NOT the 
> console. Then I use it in my programs remotely.
> 
This isn't up to the software, where the console ends up is decided by
VMB and it sets the console to the QDSS if there is a controller at
0177400. If you strap the QDSS to another address you will get the serial
port as console, but can still use the QDSS as a "normal" terminal.

-- Ragge