Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:44:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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> 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...
Hi!
Tkae a look at the linux console project.
http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxconsole.
I pretty much have rewritten the console system. I have been running a multidesktop system for some time now. It needs some more work but the core of it is their.
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