From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 02:21:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02270 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02257 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA09851; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:21:35 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA22573; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:21:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA05694; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:11:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601071011.LAA05694@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... To: bwm@iceonline.com (Matthew Asham) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:11:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960107012059.002d377c@iceonline.com> from "Matthew Asham" at Jan 6, 96 05:20:59 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. If you are debugging an X server, your best bet is a serial console, possibly including DDB on it. Something the DOS freaks don't have, either. (Been there, done that. Back in the days of a 386/16 with an ET3000 card.) -- 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. ;-)