On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > btw: is someone to do hi-resolution(80x43) for hercules (hga not mda -
> > > cards) ?
> >
> > Well, with hercules framebuffer, it works for me. I guess I could get
> > even higher resolution with tiny font.
>
> Uhm, can someone please tell me the reason for the existence of the mdacon
> driver ?
Its been around since the begining. Its fun to have.
> Or is it not possible to have consoles on different display adapters at the
> _same time_ ?
Yes. I haven't tried to see what happens when you run mdacon and hgafb at
the same time on the same hardware. I don't think it would be a good
result.
P.S
Ed did you try out the patch to see if it fixed your problem.
Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.
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