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 14:45:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:45:49 -0400 Received: from dsl-212-135-211-72.dsl.easynet.co.uk ([212.135.211.72]:57349 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:45:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 19:44:33 +0100 From: Simon Hay X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Multiple monitors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... Simon