From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:43:01 +0000 Subject: Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000 Message-Id: <20110103.114301.102556157.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <1294072336.17576.7.camel@lithium> <20110103.105827.112602895.davem@davemloft.net> <1294083541.17576.11.camel@lithium> In-Reply-To: <1294083541.17576.11.camel@lithium> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alex Buell Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:39:01 +0000 > Secondly, is Linux fully capable of handling different graphic cards > simultaneously? For example, plug in a pair of monitors and have > consoles on both with disparate graphic cards i.e. XVR-500 and S3ViRGE > etc? Technically I don't think it can do it currently. Maybe just for kernel message logging, but not for actual login consoles. One TTY device is marked as the "console" and that's where all tty[0-9]+ devices get instantiated upon.