this is not NetBSD's fault, but probably due to a long
serial cable, or bad contacts somewhere, or the dz being a pretty
braindead serial interface and somehting not keeping up. are you running
the console at some speed other than 9600? 
if youre running it at 19200, and if the dz in the vs3100 is like the dz
in the ds3100, then it doesnt actually do 19200, but 19800 or something, 
it isnt a clean division of the clock, from the crystal they chose. this
would only be an issue at 19.2, though.

in general, check the cables and connectors. i have some vt's that cant seem
to keep up very well at speeds past 9600, so it just might be unfixable, too.

isildur


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Chris Wareham wrote:
> The only remaing issue I have is that the console
> output sometimes gets garbled while scrolling. For
> instance, if I do an 'ls -l' on a large number of
> files, then once it starts scrolling I get reversed
> question mark character and garbage. Is the serial
> output getting garbled because the baud rate's to
> high? This happens on both machines with a VT320 or
> a VT420.
> 
> Apart from that, NetBSD/vax seems very rock solid.
> I'm amazed at how well it performs on what is
> quite old hardware, which I guess is a reflection
> of the quality of DEC kit, and the close ties between
> BSD Unix and the Vax.
> 
> Chris
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> cwareham@btinternet.com (home)
> 
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