From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:49:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:49:08 -0400 Received: from mail.pha.ha-vel.cz ([195.39.72.3]:33028 "HELO mail.pha.ha-vel.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:48:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:49:07 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can I have a serial display output and a kbd PS/2 input? Message-ID: <20010815094907.A5404@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <9l0n95$1me$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:22:17PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > In article <001b01c12194$a34a3370$66011ec0@frank>, > > Frank Torres wrote: > > >Sorry to be insistent in this point, but perhaps requesting the problem this > > >way someone figures out what I am trying to do. > > >The display is already configured and sending getty line from inittab waits > > >for an input from serial so it doesn't work. > > >Any other ideas? This is my last try. > > > > If you want /dev/console to behave so that it sends output to the > > serial device yet takes input from the PC keyboard, no, that cannot > > be done. Right now /dev/console can be associated with only one > > device for both input and output at the same time. > > > > Output from kernel printk's does go to all console devices though. > > Well, as a sleightly more expensive solution, you could build a Sun > keyboard to serial adapter. Somewhere on the SuSE webpage there is > instructions on how to do this. IIRC, the keyboard only uses the RxD pin > on the serial port so you would be free to use the TxD pin for your serial > LCD. > > The schematic can be had here: > http://www.suse.cz/development/input/adapters > > good luck, and hope this is of some use to you. Yes, but this won't work either, because the keyboard doesn't send ASCII. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs