Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00:29 -0700 (PDT) | | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | | Subject | Re: Mono monitor support? |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > dave@nic.com said:
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> > 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. > > I had the mono monitor running X a few years back, in conjunction with my > Trident 8900D, just as an exercise. Now I have a Matrox, and I understand it > may be possible to run another SVGA card in conjunction with that.
Should be *possible*, although the GGI Matrox Millenium driver is newish and I don't think it can run MMIO-only yet, which is necessary for multiheading. Right now, the only SVGA-SVGA multiheading we have working is between any number of S3 cards and any one other card, but that should change very soon as the other drivers mature.
> GGI isn't a finished product yet, correct?
No. We are still alpha, although a lot works already.
> Is it a user-level program, or does > it require kernel patching?
LibGGI can run without the kernel patch in a window in X by setting its display target to X instead of the kernel. You aren't going to get multiheading without the kernel patch and drivers, however.
Jon
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