Re: Serial console funnies

[Chris Andrews <chris@nodnol.org>]

Patrick Caulfield wrote on 26/01/05 08:58:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:37:20PM +0000, Chris Andrews wrote:

>>Is your machine doing some sort of BIOS serial console redirection? My 
>>Dell PE1650 has this turned on, but "off after boot" according to the 
>>settings. As no one else had reported this I'd put the problem down to 
>>Dell weirdness.
> 
> 
> I don't think so - I don't remember seeing anything like that. mind you the box
> hasn't had a monitor on in in nearly a year now! It's not a DELL machine, it's a
> Western Scientific, fairly old by today's standards it's a dual PIII/750 on (I
> think) a VIA chipset.

Hmm, odd then. I tried adding CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT, which was the only 
serial- or console-related difference between my .config and the current 
defconfig that I could see, but there was no difference.

I'm going to give the same 2.0.3 build a go on some different hardware when 
I get chance.


Chris.


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