We have a V440 running Solaris 9. The system has an XVR-100 graphics
card and CRT monitor attached. Currently the CRT monitor is acting as
the console. Is there any way to continue to utilize the CRT monitor
for logging in and windowing (i.e. continue to see the dtgreet login
screen and login to CDE) while having another device attached to the
serial management port act as the console for the system?

Thanks for any tips or suggestions.

dennis

workaccount@volcanomail.com wrote:
> We have a V440 running Solaris 9. The system has an XVR-100 graphics
> card and CRT monitor attached. Currently the CRT monitor is acting as
> the console. Is there any way to continue to utilize the CRT monitor
> for logging in and windowing (i.e. continue to see the dtgreet login
> screen and login to CDE) while having another device attached to the
> serial management port act as the console for the system?

Yes, that's pretty common.

Force the console to the device you want via 'input-device' and
'output-device' in the eeprom.

Then cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config (if you don't have one
there already). Read the examples at the top for the "if no character
device is associated" example and use that at the bottom instead of the
existing line. It'll probably look something like this when you're
done.

:0 Local local_uid@none root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner

The monitor should come alive when dtlogin launches.

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Darren Dunham wrote:
>
> Yes, that's pretty common.
>
> Force the console to the device you want via 'input-device' and
> 'output-device' in the eeprom.
>
> Then cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config (if you don't have one
> there already). Read the examples at the top for the "if no character
> device is associated" example and use that at the bottom instead of the
> existing line. It'll probably look something like this when you're
> done.
>
> :0 Local local_uid@none root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner
>
> The monitor should come alive when dtlogin launches.
>

Works magnificently. Thanks for the info Darren.

dennis