GVP Spectrum and netbsd-current

Peter Gerken

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Mar 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM3/30/95

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I was finally able to compile the cirrus-current w/ the netbsd-current
kernel, however, the login prompt still appears on the ECS screen.
When the kernel boots, it does open a console screen on the Spectrum and
displays the normal text fine (except for a sync problem I'm also working
on), but the login prompt appears on the ECS screen. Any suggestions?

Pete

Stephen Champion

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Mar 31, 1995, 3:00:00 AM3/31/95

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In article <PGERKEN.95...@fergie.atl.ge.com>,

Have /etc/ttys indicate that getty should be on for ECS and off
for thee Spectrum would do exactly that. You might want to double check
that.

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Markus Kurek

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Mar 31, 1995, 3:00:00 AM3/31/95

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Peter Gerken (pge...@atl.ge.com) wrote:

: I was finally able to compile the cirrus-current w/ the netbsd-current
: kernel, however, the login prompt still appears on the ECS screen.
: When the kernel boots, it does open a console screen on the Spectrum and
: displays the normal text fine (except for a sync problem I'm also working
: on), but the login prompt appears on the ECS screen. Any suggestions?

I had the same problem. And here is the solution:

in /etc/ttys edit ttye0 to off
change ttye1 to ttye3 and mark it on
then cd /dev and type 'mknod ttye3 13 3'

reboot :)

Hope this help...

Markus

Peter Gerken

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Mar 31, 1995, 3:00:00 AM3/31/95

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Markus..

That did the trick.. the login prompt is now on the Spectrum screen.
Thanks!!

BTW: I'm still having problems getting the screen modes to sync properly.
When I use the values in /etc/grfmodes for the console in grf_cl.c (kernel
source), the text starts an inch from the right and wraps to the left.
However, the same values w/ grfconfig seems to sync fine when they are
loaded from rc.local. Are you using a Spectrum? What screen modes do you
have setup? I'm trying to get a 640x480 screen going and then would like
to get a 800x600 and 1024x768 working.

Also.. when I use gfxtest to test some of the modes, it dumps the kernel
stack to the screen and then freezes. It would be nice to get gfxtest working
so I can test different screen modes easier.

Pete

Blaz Zupan

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Apr 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/1/95

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Peter Gerken (pge...@atl.ge.com) wrote:
> I was finally able to compile the cirrus-current w/ the netbsd-current
> kernel, however, the login prompt still appears on the ECS screen.
> When the kernel boots, it does open a console screen on the Spectrum and
> displays the normal text fine (except for a sync problem I'm also working
> on), but the login prompt appears on the ECS screen. Any suggestions?

What the cirrus-current documentation fails to mention is, that you need
to create a ttye3 device node and change /etc/ttys. Here's what you
need to do:

mknod /dev/ttye3 c 13 3
chown root.wheel /dev/ttye3
chmod 600 /dev/ttye3

After that you have to edit /etc/ttys and add a line like this:

ttye3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt100 on secure

After that you should either comment out or change to "off" the
ttye0 line in /etc/ttys.

This should do it.

Blaz

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Matthias Scheler

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Apr 2, 1995, 4:00:00 AM4/2/95

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Peter Gerken wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "GVP Spectrum and
netbsd-current":
> ..., but the login prompt appears on the ECS screen.

Of course.

> Any suggestions?

Modify /etc/ttys.

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