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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