I recently added a vga card, tube and keyboard to an alphastation 200
4/233.  I turned on ttyE0 in /etc/ttys, set console to graphics in SRM
(from a serial console) and power cycled.  SRM comes up, kernel outputs to
vga console, but I can't quite log in.  It's almost like characters
randomly get swallowed up by /dev/null.  i.e.:

NetBSD/alpha (clutx) (ttyE0)

login: root
Password:

Login times out after 300 seconds

I type in the password, of course, but it just gets ignored.

/etc/ttys has this:
# Workstation console (framebuffer) ttys
ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt100 on secure

Same results with the original "std.9600" instead of "Pc".
Userland is Jul 13th 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, kernel is -current from Aug 12.
dmesg follows.

[ preserving 253520 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (ALPHA-$Revision: 1.127.2.1 $) #0: Sat Aug 12 18:35:08 PDT 2000
    root@clutx:/export/tmp/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/CLUTX
AlphaStation 200 4/233, 233MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 49152 KB
(2000 KB reserved for PROM, 47152 KB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 40800 KB
using 307 buffers containing 2456 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064A-0 (unknown minor type 0)
apecs0 at mainbus0: DECchip 21071 Core Logic chipset
apecs0: DC21071-CA pass 2, 64-bit memory bus
apecs0: DC21071-DA pass 2
pci0 at apecs0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
siop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810 (fast scsi)
siop0: interrupting at isa irq 11
scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Intel 82378ZB System I/O (SIO) (rev. 0x84)
de0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
de0: interrupting at isa irq 5
de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4
de0: address 00:00:f8:23:44:f4
pciide0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: Promise Ultra66/ATA Bus Master IDE Accelerator (rev. 0x01)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pciide0: using isa irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 94098U8>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 39082 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 80041248 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pciide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
vga0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: S3 Trio32/64 (rev. 0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
wss0 at isa0 port 0x530-0x537 irq 9 drq 0: CS4231A
audio0 at wss0: half duplex, mmap
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
isabeep0 at pcppi0
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, LPS270S       !V, 590K> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
siop0: target 0 now synchronous at 10.0Mhz, offset 8
sd0: 258 MB, 2740 cyl, 2 head, 96 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 528808 sectors
de0: enabling 10baseT port
cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <NEC, CD-ROM DRIVE:461, 2.3d> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs


john

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