From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 17:07:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26072 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26066 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA25761; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:36:31 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA00967; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:36:30 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981023093630.R28824@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:36:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Thorpe Cc: Nick Hibma , Mike Smith , FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD References: <199810222339.QAA09540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810222339.QAA09540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>; from Jason Thorpe on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 04:39:39PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 October 1998 at 16:39:39 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:53:39 +0930 > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I don't understand if you're intending to say "in some cases". It's >> certainly not true generally. You can put as many PCI display boards >> into a machine as will fit, and with the appropriate software you can >> use them all at the same time. I'm currently using two heads with XI >> Graphics server, but will migrate to XFree86 as soon as the facility >> is available (4.0). > > In my experience, as soon as the second one goes in, they both attempt > to put themselves in ISA VGA compatibility space, and the system refuses > to boot. > > I've tried this w/ N combinations of mainboards and PCI VGA devices. I've been running multi-headed for 5 years now, and I've always been able to find boards which allow you to disable the BIOS. Granted, they won't run in VGA mode, but who wants 640x480x4? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message