[TriLUG] getting a powerbook to act like a monitor

[Andrew Ball]

Cool, thanks!  If I can get my BIOS to use the serial port for SETUP and
POST, I should be good to go.

Peace.
Andrew

On 12/4/06, Matt Bidwell <bidwell at dead-city.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew Ball wrote:
> > I need to be able to see output for _everything_, including POST,
> > installations, and whatever OS is there, even though I'd hope that
> > everything just works and I could use VNC or FreeNX.
> >
> > Peace.
> > Andrew
> Andrew,
> If your powerbook is anything like mine, you do not
> have a serial port.  You can however get a usb serial
> port.  With some configuration on both ends, you should
> be able to use a program like minicom to connect
> the USB/Serial connector on the powerbook to a
> serial port on the PC and use minicom as a serial
> console.  I believe this is what you want.  Serial console
> will give you everything that comes up on the PC.
> That's the theory at least.  You can probably google
> on serial console for futher info.
>
> Matt
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