On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:57:55AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Josip Rodin <joy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:40:05 +0100
>
> > The machine was stuck with a white blank screen on the monitor, and a
> > dysfunctional keyboard (USB). It's a standard keyboard that came with the
> > same machine, and otherwise works fine. It's completely dead - not only
> > normal key combinations (including Alt+SysRq), but pressing Caps Lock
> > doesn't turn on its LED, and Stop+A doesn't work either.
> >
> > The machine doesn't have any ports for the old-style Sun keyboards, so I'm
> > out of options...
>
> You're more likely to get a good crash dump on the serial
> console, if that is something you can use.
I tried setting the console devices to rsc-console in PROM, but the RSC
never sees anything other than the initial kernel output, and doesn't
relay any input to the machine. Have you tried that on your 280R?
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