Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:05:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Zachary R Amsden <> | Subject | Re: Dual Monitor |
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Hi, I am the author of Multimon and yes, I am still working on the project. Right now it only works on kernels below 1.3.75, but that will soon change. It offers dual monitor support, but unfortunately, you can't run X on two monitors at once because the video memory would be mapped to the same addresses. This is a hardware problem. I am currently looking at ColorGFX multiple monitor VGA cards, and hope to have a driver that works with them. Unfortunately, X is still a major problem because X handles everything, and the kernel doesn't get involved here. To get multiple monitor support for X, the X-servers will need to be rewritten. If linux-ggi gets off the ground, then this is a feasible possibility. Until then, two X monitors is just a dream. I am having major trouble finding technical references for PCI SVGA cards, and would like any pointers to information like this, because then you could use multiple VGA monitors, not just a VGA and a mono.
Oh, one other thing - someone posted about allowing sizes other than 80x25 for the VGA consoles. Multimon can handle any size VGA console, and all monitors can have a different size screen. Be careful of resizecons and friends though - I think I will need to patch these.
Nultimon is available from my machine, deathstar.res.cmu.edu on anonymous ftp
Zachary R. Amsden amsden@andrew.cmu.edu
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