Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:12:55 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony GDM-1692B in text mode? Message-ID: <199712190812.JAA24943@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217193130.12535A-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> <199712181841.LAA04686@xmission.xmission.com>
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Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> wrote: > You could get a DB-15 A/B switch and a cheap 9" white VGA monitor to > use in text mode. This is a little clumsy, but still much cheaper than > a comparable 19" monitor. At least with pcvt (where i've tested it), it's sorta possible to use a cheap Hercules card & monitor as the text screen. Of course, you gotta tell your BIOS that the Hercules is the primary display then. You still have to ``switch screens'' from and to X11. That's mainly necessary in order to arbitrate the keyboard between the VTYs. The Xserver also switches to what it thinks its own VTY were, so you can't see the normal text console output (on /dev/ttyv0) while X11 is running. I think it might be possible to convince the Xserver/ console driver part of displaying both simultaneously, but it would be a bit of work. -- 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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