Re: MDA framebuffer device

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:36:00 +0200


Hello,

> So my questions are:
>
> 1) What can this dual headed setup be used for?

For example, I use my secondary monitor for the system log and browsing
through those tons of incoming mail.

> 2) How is it used? What software is needed?

> What I'd like to do is be able to have certain VC's on my VGA
> monitor, and certain other VC's on my mono monitor. Say,
> tty[1-8] on VGA and tty[12-15] on mono.
>
> I'd also like to be able to do dual monitor debugging with this
> type of setup.
>
> Is this possible? What things do I need to do to make it happen?

Please wait a week or two for the mdacon to appear -- it will solve
all these issues in a clean way. It's possible to use the mdafb driver
in current kernels, but it doesn't work too well.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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