Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:11:46 -0500 (EST) | From | ADAM Sulmicki <> | Subject | Re: Mono terminal patches... |
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Stuart Stegall wrote:
->ok ... do you all want to know about being able to run multiple ->terminals(ie connected with serial cables or some type of networking) ... ->or consoles(ie hardwired ... like a normal computer monitor on Intel ->computers) ??
yeah, I run those at home, but since one of my "dumb" terminals is an 8088 running dos and telemate, it is not terribly fast, other one dumb terminal is an original IBM 386dx-16 w/ 2mb proprietary ram and MCA, 10-15 years old. I guess, I'll try get it someday running Linux, but so far it it also runs dos and telemate (an comm program).
But yeah, I also would like the multiple console support in linux. I have yet another box sitting at home w/ VGA and HGC cards inside and two monitors connected to it (VGA and HGC respectively). I remember that there was an patch for multipe monitors (console) support -- multimon (?), but since I was it running last time in days of 1.3.50 kernels I'm not too eager to try it since I guess it will requrie a lot changes. Yet the multimon patch was quite cool as it would let have more than 2 consoles and it would let say assing consoles ALT-F[1..6] to first monitor and consoles ALT-F[6..12] to the other monitor.
By the way, the forementioned gfx card is "ATI Graphics Ultra +" w/ mouse attached to it. The mouse itself is an 9pin inport Microsfot Bus mouse. It works fine under dos, but for nothing in world I can't get it to run under Linux, I can quote from memory the BUSMOUSE-HOWTO, I have removed everything from the comp, but the gfx card and hdd controller (and motherboard) build minimal kernel (w/ just ext2fs and the mouse support) tried it on all irq's, yet it refuses to work. Tried to compile kernel /w diff irq than the default irq 5, tried it under other devices than the /dev/whatever_it_is_called_in_your_distrubution c 10,2
Thus question, does anyone know someone having the "ATI Graphic Ultra+" w/ (and preferably w/ the mouse working?)
the min kernel cfg as as follows: [root@sulmicki linux-2.0.28]# grep ^CONFIG min.styx.cfg CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M386=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_EL2=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y CONFIG_RNFS_RARP=y CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE=y [root@sulmicki linux-2.0.28]#
since the minimal cfg was an 386 motherboard w/ cyrix 386-486dx66 overdrive and hdd/FDD contoller w/ one hdd and no floppy, (no serial card) and the only other card was the gfx card, I don't think it was some resource conflict. (the net support compiled in,since it tried netboot it from floppy, but I also tried it w/out the net card so it should not affect it).. thus any ideas exect hacking the code?
-Adam
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