Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 10:47:44 -0800 From: Matthew Asham <bwm@iceonline.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960107184744.002e3274@iceonline.com>
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At 11:11 AM 1/7/96 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >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. > Fair enough. I don't use X all that much but a serial console would probably suffice anyway. -- Matthew Asham - bwm@iceonline.com - (604) 482-7586 ext 402 Software Engineer - ICE Online Inc - http://www.iceonline.com/
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