Viewing the console from X

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> Ok, so I'm following up to myself :)
>
>> Pass console=/dev/tty1 to the kernel at boot time.  The messages should 
>> all then go to /dev/tty1 regardless of which virtual console is up.  I 
>> seem to recall I did do this years ago.  Make sure a getty is running on 
>> /dev/tty1 :)
>
> As yes you did want it under X.  You can see the serial console of other 
> boxes under X using Minicom (or the console for the same box with a serial 
> cable looped back I guess)[1].
>
> xterm -C seemed to work for me.  Thanks to Harry Spencer for reminding of 
> this switch to xterm.
>
> [1] Yes, I'm not being serious.

Yes, you are being serious. That's how one tests the setup ...

Peter
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