This question has been asked and answered in the past.
One-line Summary: Set up xdm to run on the framebuffer/mouse/keyboard.
Detailed instructions follow.
Thanks to Bill Hunter <bill@Access.COM> and Tom Reingold <tommy@big.att.com>
for their quick responses.
-- Chris.
(ch@lks.csi.com)
>From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Mon Mar 1 03:21:47 1993
To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu
Cc: drm@gaia.gcs.oz.au
Subject: SUMMARY: ACSII Terminal as console and framebuffer
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 93 19:14:15 +1100
From: David Moline <drm@gaia.gcs.oz.au>
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Thankyou managers, the list helps yet again.
What I wanted to do was to use a serial port on a SS2 as the console, but still
have available for use the graphics monitor and sun keyboard (situated remotely
from the machine).
Thanks to the following:
"John D. Barlow" <John.D.Barlow@arp.anu.edu.au>
leclerc@eps.slb.com (Leclerc Francois)
phil@dgbt.doc.ca (Phil Blanchfield)
Phil and Leclerc both suggested modifying the /etc/syslog.conf file to direct
various messages to /dev/ttya. This was not what I wanted, I needed to be able to
have full console functionality from the serial terminal and disable various
functions that the sun keyboard has when it is the console (ie aborting the
machine).
John helped out most by emailing a summary posted to this list a while ago. This
gave instructions on how to set things up for OW2, and provided enough
information to use it with OW3.
Now what to do:
1. Make new special files corresponding to the "raw" keyboard and mouse:
mknod /dev/zs2 c 12 2 # The keyboard
mknod /dev/zs3 c 12 3 # The mouse
These are just serial ports and will need some "special treatment"
in order to behave as /dev/kbd and /dev/mouse.
2. Shutdown your machine and tell the monitor to
setenv input-device ttya # Or perhaps ttyb
setenv output-device ttya
You can also use eeprom(8S).
3. Reset and reboot. /dev/fb, /dev/kbd and /dev/mouse are now useless.
In my case, /dev/bwtwo0 works as a substitute for /dev/fb.
Also /dev/ttya (ttyb) is useless - if you have an entry in ttytab
for it, comment it out.
4. Modify the StartOW file in the xdm directory ($OPENWINHOME/lib/xdm) and add
the following lines:
KEYBOARD=/dev/zs2
MOUSE=/dev/zs3
FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/bwtwo0 # As appropriate /dev/cgthree0 /dev/cgsix0 etc.
export MOUSE KEYBOARD FRAMEBUFFER
This file is only used by xdm to control the local display (see the Xservers
file). So setting these variables will not affect xdm running on any other
foreign display (ie xterminal).
5. Start xdm (which is what I desired to do). To set up xdm to run - basically,
set the OPENWINHOME env variable, and then start xdm with the config option
for example in /etc/rc:
OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin; export OPENWINHOME
if [ -f $OPENWINHOME/lib/xdm/xdm-config ]; then
$OPENWINHOME/bin/xdm -config $OPENWINHOME/lib/xdm/xdm-config &
echo "Starting XDM..."
fi
6. I also modified one other file in the xdm directory (Xsession). I simply
modified the file to search for on start-up to be $HOME/.xsession, rather
than $HOME/.xinitrc. This is probably a religious issue about what files are
to do what function, but that is the way I prefer to have xdm setup.
Now the serial port is the console in every sense and you are still able to log
in and use the framebuffer, keyboard and mouse.
Thanks
--- David Moline (drm@gaia.gcs.oz.au) Graphics Computer Systems Pty Ltd, Australia Ph: +61-3-888-8522 Fax: +61-3-808-9151
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