Re: Running Xorg with a serial console

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:16:47PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> this sounds like you didn't setup wscons for serial properly, and that
> ttyE5 is not created.  this is what happens when the console is not
> the wscons.  see /etc/wscons.conf (you'll have to uncomment the ttyE2
> to ttyE5 lines.)

Indeed, the modification to /etc/wscons.conf removes the need for
my Xorg patch. I now have:
screen  0       -       vt100
screen  1       -       vt100
screen  2       -       vt100
screen  3       -       vt100
screen  4       -       vt100
screen  5       -       vt100
encoding fr

I wonder if the Xorg patch could still be of some interest for the 
unwary admin that missed this step. 

That did not help with the "pckbport: command timeout" messages and
the freezes that come with it. "userconf disable pckbc0" works it
around.

> please provide full details on this part.  mine shows eg:

# grep pckb /var/run/dmesg.boot
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0 mux 1
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot

With is of course without userconf disable pckbc0. As noted earlier,
no keyboard is connected to the system.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost