Re: linux as a minicomputer ?

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:59:21PM +0200, Rene Rebe wrote:
> On: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:49:42 +0000,
> "John P. Looney" <john@antefacto.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik mentioned:
> > > > I'd presumed this was
> > > > the whole point of the busid spec in the config file.
> > > No, it's for running one Xserver on multiple displays at once only.
> > > Sad, ain't it?
> >
> > Very sad. Nice to know it's not really the kernel's fault.
>
> It IS the kernel's fault, because only one VT can be active. The
> kernel VT stuff needs to be redesigned to hadle multiple VT at the
> same time ...

Yes and no. You shouldn't need VTs to run Xservers at all.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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