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From: goss@SNOW-WHITE.MERIT-TECH.COM (Mike Goss)
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Subject: Re: IRIS console - how do servers work ?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 19:57:22 GMT
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> 
> -  too bad, but thanks for replies anyway. I imagined that it might be
> possible to set the links to some /dev/syscon in a way that the serial port is
> addressed as if it were a real device. Unfortunately, setting the console 
> to serial in the PROM results in lack of console capabilities, e.g., the 
> console is no longer accessible directly and the window manager needs 
> to be started in a special way. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Reinhard 
> 

You can still use the graphics console even if you have redirected the
system console to a serial port with the PROM monitor.  Just run
"/etc/gl/restartgl" to start up 4Sight.  Kill the process named
"grcond" to get rid of 4Sight (or just logout).

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Mike Goss
Merit Technology Inc.
(214)733-7018
goss@snow-white.merit-tech.com

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