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SubjectRe: Mono terminal patches...
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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