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>G.3. Acknowledgments</H1
><P
>The first edition of this <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>HOWTO</I
> was
written by Mark Komarinski. It was based upon
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt</TT
>,
which was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg.</P
><P
>The second edition of this <I
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>HOWTO</I
> was
written by the staff of the <A
HREF="http://www.aarnet.edu.au/"
TARGET="_top"
>Australian Academic and Research
Network</A
>, mainly Glen Turner and David Vu.</P
><P
>The following people have contributed to this
<I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>HOWTO</I
>. They are listed in no particular
order.</P
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><DT
>LinuxSA mailing list</DT
><DD
><P
>Proof reading of the Second Edition. <A
HREF="http://www.linuxsa.org.au/"
TARGET="_top"
>LinuxSA</A
> is a
<SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>Linux</SPAN
> user group based
in South Australia.</P
></DD
><DT
>David Lawyer</DT
><DD
><P
>Technical review of the Second Edition and recommending
the updated <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>HOWTO</I
> to the Linux
Documentation Project. David is author of the <A
HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html"
TARGET="_top"
><I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>Text-Terminal-HOWTO</I
></A
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Devin Reade</DT
><DD
><P
>Xyplex terminal server information. Devin maintains
information about Xyplex terminal servers at <A
HREF="http://www.gno.org/~gdr/xyplex/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://www.gno.org/~gdr/xyplex/</A
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Michael Brown, Marc Mondragon and other members of the
<I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>Linux on Dell PowerEdge</I
> mailing
list</DT
><DD
><P
>Technically described how the <SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>BIOS</SPAN
>
redirects characters to the serial port. The <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>Linux
on Dell PowerEdge</I
> list can be subscribed to by
sending a message containing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>subscribe
linux-poweredge</TT
> to
<TT
CLASS="EMAIL"
><<A
HREF="mailto:linux-poweredge-request@dell.com"
>linux-poweredge-request@dell.com</A
>></TT
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Thomas Lunde, Gabor Kiss and Carlo Belon</DT
><DD
><P
>Noticed errors of grammar and typography.</P
></DD
><DT
>Darren Young</DT
><DD
><P
>Updates to
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc/security/console.perms</TT
> for
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Red Hat Linux</SPAN
>
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNUMBER"
>7.2</SPAN
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Yasufumi Haga</DT
><DD
><P
>Spotted many errors whilst translating this
<I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>HOWTO</I
> into Japanese for the
<SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>JF</SPAN
> Linux documentation endeavour.</P
></DD
><DT
>Thomas Horsley</DT
><DD
><P
>Pointed out that the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>X Window
System</SPAN
> may still need to be running even if a
serial console is used. Supplied the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>gdm</B
>
configuration used in <A
HREF="misc-init.html#MISC-INIT-X11-GDMCONF"
>Figure 7-3</A
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Greg Matthews, Nathan Neulinger and Romildo Wildgrube</DT
><DD
><P
>Encountered and reported that machines hang when booting
if kernel parameter
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>console=ttyS</TT
>…<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>r</TT
> is
used. This is due to a kernel bug which loops testing
<SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CTS</SPAN
> without firstly checking that
<SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DSR</SPAN
> and <SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DCD</SPAN
> are
asserted.</P
></DD
><DT
>Shaun Karl and Keisuke Nakao</DT
><DD
><P
>Procedures for <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Debian
<SPAN
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GNU</SPAN
>/Linux</SPAN
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Igor Sviridov</DT
><DD
><P
>Configuration of <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Livingstone
Portmaster</SPAN
> terminal server in <A
HREF="ts-pm.html"
>Section E.5</A
>.</P
></DD
><DT
>Sue Bauer-Lee</DT
><DD
><P
>Suggested using the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>off</TT
> clause in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc/inittab</TT
> in <A
HREF="getty-mingetty.html#GETTY-MINGETTY-INITTAB"
>Figure 6-9</A
> rather than commenting or
deleting the excess <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>mingetty</SPAN
>
invocations. This has the advatage that no automated system
administration tool will restore the excess
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>inittab</TT
> entries.</P
></DD
><DT
>Yasuhiro Suzuki</DT
><DD
><P
>Noticed inconsistent descrtiptions of Clear to Send and
Ready to Send.</P
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