From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA26185 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:43:26 -0600 From: Helge Deller To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:10:48 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00053020434701.00442@P100> Subject: [parisc-linux] STI-Console Mini-HOWTO List-ID: Hi, After my last commits regarding keyboard-support and STI-Console I think a small MINI-HOWTO should help to avoid the most problems for people, who want to try the STI-Console on their machines..... But first of all, I would like to thank Philipp Rumpf for allowing me to commit his sticon.[c|h] drivers. As usual, any feedback is welcome :-) Helge ----------------------------------------------------------------- STI-console MINI-HOWTO: ----------------------- - check out a fresh linux-2.3 and palo, delete your .config and use "make menuconfig" :-) - SELECT ONLY ONE of "Support for console on serial port" ** OR ** "STI-Console". - if you get "unable to open initial console", check the MAJOR/MINOR of /dev/console in your ramdisk or NFS: mknod /dev/console c 5 1 -- for serial console mknod /dev/console c 4 0 -- for STI-console (should it be 4/1 ?) For both cases I uploaded new ramdisks (ramdisk20000530-[sercon|sticon].tgz) to ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/ramdisks I added special files for lp- and parport-devices there too. - for the STI-console you may define the initial number of rows & columns in drivers/video/dummycon.c (this is temporary). You may adjust the numbers to the kernel message "Console: switching to colour STI console x" you will get during the first time the kernel starts. - once you see your STI-console is working you may reenable "unregister_console()" at the end of arch/parisc/pdc_cons.c This will disable the "double" output from the kernel. - The only tested keyboard-support is currently with HIL-keyboards as used in 715/64's. PS/2-Keyboards *may* work (feedback welcome!).