From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:48:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:48:28 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:64400 "HELO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:48:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:48:29 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= To: Simon Hay Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple monitors Message-ID: <20010903214829.B17488@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= , Simon Hay , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org>; from simon@haywired.org on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:33PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Simon Hay wrote: > Hi all, > > 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* - 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. > A quick search of the web/newsgroups turned up various patches that > looked ideal, but a closer inspection revealed that they either relied > on you having a Hercules mono card, or only applied against kernel > <0.99, or both... I was just wondering if anyone's thought > about/written a similar patch for more recent hardware/versions? I was > using a console Linux machine running BB (ASCII art demo - > http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/) just to attract attention to our > stand today and was thinking it would be really neat to have one machine > driving several screens... XFree86 has pretty good support for multiple heads. If you tie an xterm to the root window, I guess you would get something pretty close to what you're looking for. Or, configure some window manager properly to do exactly what you want. -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: