On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jeramy B Smith wrote:
> What was your upgrade? Possible resource conflict? When the kernel talks to
apt-get update & upgrade, of course :-)
> the conflicting device you get garbage maybe?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
> To: Debian GNU/Linux PPC <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 5:03 PM
> Subject: serial port screw up
>
>
> >
> > Since I upgraded my system after three weeks of inactivity and rebooted
> after
> > that, my serial port (NS16550 type) is screwed up: I get weird characters
> > instead of the login prompt on my terminal. However, I can login, and
> > everything I type is echoed correctly. `cat'ing a file to /dev/ttyS0 gives
> > garbage, too.
> >
> > It's not a baud problem. Also kernel messages are displayed correctly
> (using
> > console=ttyS0). During the first part of the boot up, boot up messages
> (from
> > init) are displayed correctly. Suddenly I start getting garbage.
> >
> > I'll try to find out which of the startup scripts causes the problem. if
> > someone else already have an idea, I'd be glad to hear...
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium