Re: Serial console?

[Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Marc Duponcheel wrote:
> > PS: I could see some complaints about 'cua' being depreciated in favour of
> > 'ttyS' on first bootup. I'll check what this is about.
> 
> What it is: an attempt to get rid of the confusion caused by having pairs
> of devices for one physical serial port - make all users go away, then
> remove cua* in 2.3.
> 
> Why you are seeing this: no idea, some program is accessing cua*, but I
> have no idea which one...

setconsole program is broken, if it detects serial console, it ln -sf
/dev/console to /dev/cuaX. That is wrong with 2.1 kernels, where
/dev/console should be always character 5,1. Install program runs
setconsole, if it detects a serial console during install. So, either do you
install from framebuffer, or after install 
rm -f /dev/console
mknod /dev/console c 5 1

I promise to fix this soon, but as I mentioned in the last mail, we have to
get consoles working again with 2.1.107 first.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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