From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 10:51:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA00878 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from iceonline.com (ns.iceonline.com [204.191.208.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00871 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from w3 by iceonline.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0tZ0GL-000tvOC; Sun, 7 Jan 96 10:56 WET Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960107184744.002e3274@iceonline.com> X-Sender: matthewa@iceonline.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 10:47:44 -0800 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) From: Matthew Asham Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 11:11 AM 1/7/96 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >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. > Fair enough. I don't use X all that much but a serial console would probably suffice anyway. -- Matthew Asham - bwm@iceonline.com - (604) 482-7586 ext 402 Software Engineer - ICE Online Inc - http://www.iceonline.com/