From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 03:56:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 03:55:53 -0400 Received: from matrix.fr.professo.net ([213.11.43.1]:13582 "EHLO fr.professo.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 03:55:48 -0400 Message-ID: <00d001c13517$0caa6ca0$c200a8c0@professo.lan> From: "Ghozlane Toumi" To: "Simon Hay" , In-Reply-To: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org> Subject: Re: Multiple monitors Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:56:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Simon Hay" Said: > Apologies in advance if this is a question that's already been answered > somewhere... I'm looking for a way to install multiple (or rather, two) > PCI/AGP cards in a machine and connect a monitor to each one, and use > them both *in console mode* - this already exist in the current kernels, as long as you use video boards that can be initialised independently from the bios . the 1st head can be whatever you want, but the next heads have to be carefully chosen (matrox boards comes to mind) then disable software scrollback as there are issues with multihead . (append="video:scrollback:0") > preferably with some nice way to say > 'assign virtual console 2 to the first screen, and 5 to the second' - > that way you could have one tailing log files, showing 'top', whatever. this is "con2fb": to assign 2nd Virtual console to 2nd head : con2fb /dev/fb1 /dev/tty2 ghoz