Re: Mono terminal patches...

Stuart Stegall (keltor@gower.net)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:43:53 -0600


ok ... do you all want to know about being able to run multiple
terminals(ie connected with serial cables or some type of networking) ...
or consoles(ie hardwired ... like a normal computer monitor on Intel
computers) ??

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> From: Al Black <gblack@nol.net>
> To: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
> Cc: Steve Payne <srp20@cam.ac.uk>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Mono terminal patches...
> Date: Monday, January 20, 1997 7:56 PM
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Steve Payne wrote:
> >
> > > Does the code for running a tty on a mono monitor & card (as well as
your
> > > honest and good colour one) live in the kernel source or are there a
set
> > > of majik patches to grab from somewhere (if at all)..?
> >
> > Last time I looked, there were dualmon patches on sunsite somewhere. I
> > don't think they ever got integrated.
> >
> > Somebody ought to look into multiple displays in text mode one day, I
> > suppose. Do any of the Xservers support multiple screens?
> >
> > P.
> >
> >
> Sunsite has mda-0.9.tar.gz (module) and multimon-0.2.tar.gz(patch against

> 1.3.68), I did'nt check the incoming directory. I tried both, both
> worked ok. with the module you wind up with something like /dev/mono to
> which you can direct output (Now I wonder if I should have tried putting
> a getty on it). Multimon works but I sometimes get some trash on either
> display. It's nice to be able to run gdb on a seprate display.
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> Al Black
> gblack@nol.net