Is the back light on ?.. sometimes it so happens that chars are not
visible on the LCD . have you checked for "console on serial port" where
you compiled the kernel. [make menuconfig]
hope this helps
-Kishan
Harishankkar wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to Port linux on a assabet board using kernel version 2.4.0
> I have patched it with the patches given in the
> site.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wearable/software/assabet.html
> The host system is a red hat linux 7.0 one.
> I have used angel boot to load the kernel.
> Actually I am getting a TUX on the LCD screen but nothing on the serial
> Port.
> And a cursor blinking on the LCD after that,after I had booted the kernel.My
> problems once
> the download is completed I am not getting any thing on the serial port.
>
> What is this
> configuration there in the opt or the .angelrc file?
> baud 115200
> after the line "options 9600 8N1"
> The Sa1100 default baud rate has been choosen as 9600 in the kernel
> configuration by
> default
> We used the RAMDISK given by Nicholas.
> I have set the CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y ,in the kernel settings.
>
> Since angel was not working as expected we went ahead with blob.In blob also
> everything
> went on fine .Here too we faced a problem ,we were able to download the
> kernel to the
> target at only 9600 not at 115200.There was some problem.Here too after
> copying the
> kernel image and the RAM DISK there was this message on the serial Port
> Starting the kernel.....
> After that we got a message
> Uncompressing the kernel.................booting the kernel....
> After that no messages on the serial Port .
> What could be the problem?
>
> Thanx in advance,
> hari
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