Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:11:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bwm@iceonline.com (Matthew Asham) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... Message-ID: <199601071011.LAA05694@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960107012059.002d377c@iceonline.com> from "Matthew Asham" at Jan 6, 96 05:20:59 pm
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As Matthew Asham wrote: > > Is there a way to get FreeBSD to work with two display adapters (hercules > and VGA). The hercules card would be used as a debug monitor. I've looked > through the various kernel config files and sources but I haven't seen > anything (yet). To the best of my knowledge, it's not supported. It has been on the whiteboard for pcvt some time ago, but i don't think there's enough interest to ever make this happen. It doesn't buy you much more than a regular virtual terminal anyway. (Note that the DOS friends don't have virtual terminals, so it _does_ buy them very much.) If you are running X and your keyboard jams, you are hosed, either with a single or with two monitors. If you are running X, and your keyboard doesn't jam, you can always revert to a text screen. If you are debugging an X server, your best bet is a serial console, possibly including DDB on it. Something the DOS freaks don't have, either. (Been there, done that. Back in the days of a 386/16 with an ET3000 card.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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