Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:49:07 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Can I have a serial display output and a kbd PS/2 input? |
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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 <frank@ingecom.net> 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.
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