Re: VCs and diff. video modes
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sat, 16 Aug 1997 21:26:13 +0200 (MET DST)
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I know that FreeBSD allows different VC's to be in different video
> > modes (i.e VC 1 would be in 80x25 and VC 2 would be in 80x50). The current
> > console code in linux does not do this. It looks like it might of had this
> > ability at one point, but it was taken out because it was messy. Is there
> > any plans to add it back in? It would be a nice feature to have
> > available.
>
> dosemu does this. And I hate this feature - as it takes some time for
> monitor to stabilize if you switch between more different video modes.
Linux/m68k allows all virtual consoles to have different sizes since a very
long time. As a bonus my current kernel (and thus the next official m68k, I
hope) has multihead support too.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium