BSD@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott Dickson) (08/01/90)
I have a new Sun 4/490 with a GX board in it that is to act not only as a server for several dataless clients, but also as a graphics seat in the lab. Problem is, what with students being students, I would like to put the console on /dev/ttya and hook a terminal up as the console. This works just dandy if there is no graphics frame buffer, but if I do eeprom console=ttya and reboot, I have problems. The system still takes its input from the Sun keyboard. Also, it claims that it cannot find a default frame buffer when it boots. So, I end up with console output on the terminal, input being taken from the Sun keyboard with the graphics monitor, and no frame buffer activated. Of course, ideally, I would like to have both console input and output on the tty, and graphics on the monitor, and input for the monitor taken from the sun keyboard. Does anyone have an idea how I might do this? eeprom console=tty and q1f12 from the boot prom both give the results described above. Thanks in advance, --SCott Dickson