Comment 14 for bug 1094278

Hi Koen,
  It would probably be worth retrying the things without the getty (might be worth checking there wasn't one on the xubuntu host as well!).

  Hmm odd; the echo is about the simplest thing to try. if retrying without the getty doesn't help; have you got a
serial breakout box, or a lead with pins 2/3 connected as a loopback? My normal first test to see if I can get serial going is with
something like minicom and just start typing, and put a loopback lead in, if I get the echo with the loopback lead but not without it then I know at least that end is working. I'd also normally do that test with all forms of handshaking etc disabled.

Dave