Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:42:38 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console. |
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Sorry, I've been away for the past 10+ days and not reading email at all.
Olaf> On 15-Mar-07, John Stoffel wrote: >> Would this explain why recent version of GDM don't find the keyboard >> properly when you boot with a kernel command line of: >> >> kernel ... console=tty0 console=ttyS1,96008N1 >> >> until you stop and restart GDM? This was filed under Debian bug >> #406457 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457) >> and I could never figure it out until I removed my serial console line >> at one point.
Olaf> Try changing the order of the console= parameters:
Olaf> kernel ... console=ttyS1,96008N1 console=tty0
This isn't good for me, since it then drops some output I want to save via the serial console to the regular console. It would be nice if all output went to BOTH consoles, though input should only be accepted on the first console listed.
Olaf> Some time ago I understood what this does. Nowadays I can only Olaf> remember that this makes both the serial console and directly Olaf> attached screen/keyboard console work most of the time. FWIW, Olaf> tty0 becomes the so-called "preferred console".
Sure, but I want the serial console to be the preferred console for output, so I can capture it all. But this is still a good idea and I'll test it out and see if GDM still has a problem with it like that. I suspect not, but we'll see.
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