Re: Mono monitor support?

Dave Wreski (dave@nic.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:50:27 -0400 (EDT)

> dave@nic.com said:
>> Hi all. I'm using 2.0.30-pre10, and wondered if there is any support
>> for adding a Hercules mono card, and mono monitor.
>
>> I remember back at 1.x there was a patch, but it seemed to stop being
>> developed..
>
> It's on sunsite, but it's also at
> ftp://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/pub/kernel/mda-0.11.tar.gz
>
> You can only redirect output to it (/dev/mono) but I'm working on a driver
> which will allow you to use a PS/2 keyboard in the mouse port, to give the
> mono
> screen a matching keyboard. Any more than that and you're asking for GGI,
> really.

Thanks for the ideas. I don't know how I managed to make my message so vague.

I did in fact want to be able to make use of the mono monitor and Herc card, in
conjunction to my PCI Video card.

> I have had getty running on the mono screen, with tty1-3 on the VGA and 4-6
> on the mono. If you want that, go for GGI.

I had the mono monitor running X a few years back, in conjunction with my
Trident 8900D, just as an exercise. Now I have a Matrox, and I understand it
may be possible to run another SVGA card in conjunction with that.

GGI isn't a finished product yet, correct? Is it a user-level program, or does
it require kernel patching? I remember hearing that Linus will not apply it to
the normal kernel tree, but don't remember why.

Thanks again,
Dave