Re: dual vga?

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:19:41 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >Jakob Borg wrote:
> >> Actually what I was thinking (since the second monitar+card are from
> >the eighties) is to run X on my normal (ATI Mach64 PCI) card+monitor and
> >have some kind of text console/syslog/whatever on the other monitor.
>
> Stay tuned for a multiple VGA/MDA patch coming soon for developement
> kernels. I wrote the multimon patches for the 2.0.x kernels and will be
> continuing development. The kernel console subsystem has changed in
> such a way that these patches will be unobtrusive and very small (unlike
> the original multimon patches, which required > 1000 #ifdefs).

In fact it's already there using frame buffer devices:

bool 'Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB=y
tristate 'VGA chipset support (text only)' CONFIG_FB_VGA=y
tristate 'MDA dual-headed support' CONFIG_FB_MDA=y

Have fun!

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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