Subject: Re: DEC 3000/300
To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/17/2002 19:17:16
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:12:24AM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
*should* is not always *will*.
>>> SET CONSOLE SERIAL tends to help quite well.
>
> ARC or SRM should fall back to serial console in the event that it can't
> detect a keyboard. So even if you have a graphics board in your machine,
> all you have to do is unplug the keyboard and the system will fall back to
> serial.
>
>
> > When I got rid of the graphical console on my mine, I simply had to plug the
> > terminal in and set it for 9600/N/8/1. Did not need to configure anything at
> > all. Simply turned it on and the console prompted appeared (after POST).
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > Quoting Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it:
> >
> > >
> > > anyone of you knows how to enable serial console instead of graphics
> > > console on dec 3000?
> > > I have no way to go on graphic console now I have a working DEC 3000
> > > without monitor.
> > >
> > > thanks much
> > >
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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