From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 16:41:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23249 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23242 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09540; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810222339.QAA09540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Greg Lehey Cc: Nick Hibma , Mike Smith , FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:39:39 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:53:39 +0930 Greg Lehey wrote: > I don't understand if you're intending to say "in some cases". It's > certainly not true generally. You can put as many PCI display boards > into a machine as will fit, and with the appropriate software you can > use them all at the same time. I'm currently using two heads with XI > Graphics server, but will migrate to XFree86 as soon as the facility > is available (4.0). In my experience, as soon as the second one goes in, they both attempt to put themselves in ISA VGA compatibility space, and the system refuses to boot. I've tried this w/ N combinations of mainboards and PCI VGA devices. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message