Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:33:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <199712140033.RAA01395@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:55:32 %2B1030." <19971214105532.35984@lemis.com> References: <19971214105532.35984@lemis.com> <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213191637.14104R-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In message <19971214105532.35984@lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : If I were to do this (and I might--I have a 17" Sun monitor out in the : shed), I'd put it on a second display board. I'd be curious to see if this works. I've never had enough hardware to give it a try, since the mono boards were before my time and none of the cards I've tried support multiple VGA cards in one system... : There are numerous ways to handle this problem, for example turning : the monitor off during boot and until you can start xdm. I probably : wouldn't have sent this message to -questions without a few more : caveats, but I think -hackers people can think for themselves. Yes. Too bad you have to fsck /usr before you can start X, or have a huge / partition in order to make it work well in the boot process. Warner
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