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From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: vitual terminals on console?
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Date: 29 Mar 93 17:40:41 GMT
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In article <1p2aug$mr4@wzv.win.tue.nl>, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van
Rooij) writes:
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> >Steve Owen
> This package is called sos-syscons and is available from
> agate.berkeley.edu
> in /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/from-ref/sos-syscons (or at
> least the real pathname resemble this ;-)). It replaces the stock
> pccons driver. You can also wait a bit untill the new codrv driver
> from
> Hloger Veit comes out. It's being beta tested right now, and as far
> as I know it makes a good chance to become the new standard console
> driver. (anyone: correct me if I am wrong.)
Does this or any of the Virtual Screen patches handle a screen that has
XFree up? i.e. Can I have XFree86 up on one screen and a basic console
up on another? ISC did this and it was pretty useful when debugging
problems with the X-server.
- Gary
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