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Re: Connecting a console.



Hi,

I have such a VT already for several years. Can only tell that it is 10
times better than any other thing.

Anyway, I use agetty like this:
s1:123:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS1 38400 vt320

I also had to patch my termcap for screen to use the hardware status line
of the VT (a very nice feature). 

Look on sites like pccables.com/org or similar sounding stuff and look for
PC cabling on yahoo etc. That's how I always find cabling schemes when I
need them (Basically a pinout is enough anyway).

In any case you need a null-modem cable, not a straight one.

Schlomo

PS: If you get to use it, try to run programs like mc. on my VT is just
goes into a frency and starts to print only ?. Seems like there is a
problem with the escape characters. The same happens under screen,
btw. and I really would like to find a solution for this.



Sincerely,

Schlomo Schapiro

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email: schlomo@schapiro.org
WWW:   http://www.schapiro.org

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nimrod S. Carmi wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> > coolness :-) I always wanted a VT at home... I remember calling BBSes
> > from a VT220 at the army at 2400 almost 10 years ago :-)
> 
> Calling BBSs from the army. naughty ;)
> 
> > the VT should just be set to the same line speed and soft flow control,
> > remember to cross the serial cable because both computer and terminal
> > are DTE, so a modem cable won't do. simple 1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 7-7 should be
> > fine for a D-type 25. if your linux has only 9 pin outputs, I don't
> > remember the pinout (sorry).
> 
> Thats the problem, it's 9 pin and I'm almost sure that my problem is the
> cable I made is not good.
> Any way I could find such cable in office depot or something ?
> 
> > after that, you simply add a getty to/etc/inittab to listen on that
> > port. but try mgetty instead of mingetty, it's supposed to have more
> > options for terminal. see the manpage for setting Xon/Xoff flowcontrol
> > and you're on your way.
> 
> Can't I just do something like "echo "blah" > /dev/cua2" and see it
> written on the monitor of the VT ?
> 
> 
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