Josip, The only thing I know is that the RSC firmware can be buggy. Maybe you can try to upgrade the RSC firmware and the OBP firmware.
Cheers, Daniel van Eeden On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 21:33 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone got a working console redirection set up with a Sun Fire 280R's > RSC card and a Linux kernel 2.6.x? I do a 'bootmode -u normal' followed > by a 'reset', and that temporarily resets the PROM variables output-device > and input-device so that it goes to rsc-console. (The keyboard and monitor > remain plugged in physically at the time.) > > This gets me the PROM input/output nicely, then I boot into SILO, but then > problems arise. With a 2.4.x kernel, I get the console output, but no input. > With 2.6.x I get nothing after the screen is cleared for the first time by > the kernel. > > The relevant silo.conf bits are: > > append="video=atyfb:off" > [...] > > # this is the 2.4.x image that output to RSC (but doesn't take input from it) > image=/boot/vmlinuz.old > label=linux.oldsc > append="video=atyfb:off console=ttyS0,9600n8" > > # these two don't output anything to the RSC > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.5 > label=linux215 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.5 > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.5 > label=linux215sc > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.5 > append="video=atyfb:off console=ttyS0,9600n8" > > I also tried removing all of framebuffer and boot logo from the 2.6 kernel, > but nothing changed. > > What am I doing wrong? > > -- > 2. That which causes joy or happiness. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]