Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:57:50 +0300 (IDT) | From | Matan Ziv-Av <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Simon Hay wrote:
> Hi all, > > Apologies in advance if this is a question that's already been answered > somewhere...I'm looking for a way to install multiple (or rather, two) > PCI/AGP cards in a machine and connect a monitor to each one, and use > them both *in console mode* - preferably with some nice way to say > 'assign virtual console 2 to the first screen, and 5 to the second' - > that way you could have one tailing log files, showing 'top', whatever. > A quick search of the web/newsgroups turned up various patches that > looked ideal, but a closer inspection revealed that they either relied > on you having a Hercules mono card, or only applied against kernel > <0.99, or both...I was just wondering if anyone's thought > about/written a similar patch for more recent hardware/versions?I was > using a console Linux machine running BB (ASCII art demo - > http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/) just to attract attention to our > stand today and was thinking it would be really neat to have one machine > driving several screens...
If you want only textmode, look at nvvgacon http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/ this module enables text console on secondary nvidia cards. I think it only works on riva128 now, but it should be easy to add support for tnt and later. If you also want to use a second keyboard, There is also ps2key, usb2key, to emulate a second console (from user space) with a keyboard connected to usb or to ps/2 mouse port.
-- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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