Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Mono monitor support? | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:33:27 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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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.
There's a patch included for 2.1.x which allows the MDA screen to be registered as a console device, so that oops messages etc. will appear on it. Very useful if you're running an X server when your machine dies.
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.
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