Messages in this thread | | | From | (Mitch Davis) | Subject | Re: Dual Monitor | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:15:35 +1000 (EST) |
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> Anybody else wants to get involved in that? Comments from other ppl in > the kernel dev. also welcome...
There was an article the other day about "Multimon". Let me have a dig... Ahh, here it is....
> From amsden+@andrew.cmu.edu Tue Mar 12 18:26:50 1996 > From: Zachary R Amsden <amsden+@andrew.cmu.edu> > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:36:57 -0500 (EST) > Subject: [none] > Status: OR > > netnews.comp.os.linux.development.system, comp.os.linux.hardware > Subject: > Cc: > > I have just completed the BETA release of MultiMon, which allows for > multiple monitors under Linux. It supports VGA/EGA and CGA/MDA. This > allows you to have a dual-monitor system (or if you have strange, modified > hardware, an n monitor system). Most of the bugs in the last release have > been fixed, and it works slickly, even with X. Unfortunately, there is > still a problem with SVGALib, X and Dosemu, which might not be fixable in > the kernel (these things still work with it - see the readme). > > It is available on: > tsx-11 (I don't know where yet, I just uploaded it today) > sunsite (soon, appears to be temporarily down) > deathstar.res.cmu.edu:/pub/development/multimon-BETA/multimon-0.2.tar.gz > (may be up and down sporadically because I kernel hack a lot, but very > rarely down for more than 1/2 hour) > > >From the README: > NOTES: > > This is a BETA release - there may be bugs or unimplemented features, and > I can take no responsibility for any damages to your computer. This may > sound spooky, but it is just another part of legal hocus-pocus. I am > solidly confident in the code, as it is working on my machine, and am just > as confident that it will work on other machine with standard VGA/mono > combinations. However, I don't have the hardware to test other monitor > configurations, so there may be bugs with particular hardware. > > The patches are against the 1.3.68 kernel console driver, and should work on > the latest kernels in the 66-70 series. > > Ok, first of all, these patches do not work with a DEC PCI TGA card. > Hopefully soon they will. (as I said last time. Now I have discovered that > this card is used only on Alpha chip platforms. If anyone has any > information on how plug and play works on Alphas, or how this card works, I > would be greatly obliged). > > There are no longer two distributed patches - you cannot ifdef this anymore. > My reasoning behind this is that it is pretty easy, but pub/Linux/Incoming for > the moment). > > J
I saved it because I will be needing it soon. Let me know how you go.
Mitch.
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