From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 16:32:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28367 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA28331 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:32:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xh1z3-0006ed-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:32:37 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA01395; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:33:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712140033.RAA01395@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Cc: Chuck Robey , sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:55:32 +1030." <19971214105532.35984@lemis.com> References: <19971214105532.35984@lemis.com> <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:33:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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