SUMMARY II: Remote console problem

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I was summarizing too quickly. Here's the official Sun solution to my
problem:

My question was:

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I was noticing that I can't use the keyboard/framebuffer anymore when
the serial port is used as the console. I was trying this by setting
the eeprom 'input-device' and 'output-device' to 'ttya', but wasn't
able to access the keyboard anymore. This apparently fails after the
eeprom changes:
        perl -e 'open(X, "/dev/kbd") || die "$!\n"'
and returns: "No such device or address".
What I want is: Running X windows in front of the workstation, but
using a dumb terminal attached to /dev/ttya for the console. I'm
running a Sun-4/40 (IPC) and SunOS 4.1.1.
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Hal Stern's (stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM) answer:
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to do this, you need sun's CONSULT-REMOTECONSOLE
package, which reconfigures the framebuffer/keyboard
even if they aren't the console device.  the default
autoconfig drops these devices if it finds the
console on a tty port
--hal
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Thank you, Hal.

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