All standard 16550 family ports support 8 bits _and_ parity. Ancient
serial ports did have a restriction, but that restriction is no more.
> All showed wrong or no characters in the display. It only worked with 8,
> parity on, parity odd, stop b. (also with no stop b.)
You actually mean 2 stop bits. (There is _always_ one stop bit).
I read your first mail, but couldn't really grasp the details of your
problem.
Are you trying to direct console _output_ to ttyS2 and the VGA card, yet
still accept input from the PS/2 keyboard? And then when you try to set
this up, you get garbled characters via ttyS2?
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