[TriLUG] PPC Linux question

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Mon May 15 10:22:19 EDT 2006


Unfortunately, no, vnc is not a possibility with what I'm doing. Since 
this is internal for my company, I cannot get into many details, but I 
can say, I HAVE to be able to force a license agreement to be read and I 
need to have it kill the keys for ctrl, c, q, and such over SOL.

Andrew Ball wrote:
> Have you tried passing
> 
> vnc vncpassword=<your_vnc_password>
> 
> on the kernel command line?
> 
> It sounds like you're using a JS20 blade -- there's a long document on
> how to deploy RHEL 4 U1 on it here --
> 
> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/literature/pdf/bctrjs20rhel41090805.pdf 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Andrew
> 
> On 5/11/06, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm working on a PPC install where I need to disable some keys,
>> including the CTRL key. I have to use default linux tools. We're using
>> RHEL4U1 for PPC. We use loadkeys on our x86 based servers and it works
>> fine. However, the same scripts we use on x86 don't seem to work on PPC.
>>
>> Hardware wise, this is a server that ONLY does Serial Over Lan (SOL), no
>> keyboard/mouse/video hardware are installed.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Roy
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