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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!und.ac.za!peacenjoy.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mono and Color Date: 15 Jun 1996 18:51:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4pv0oa$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C0688D.41C67EA6@bridge.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Michael Hughes <mhughes@bridge.com> wrote: > Under Coherent 4.x, I was able to use both my mono and color displays > for consoles at the same time. It was nice to be able to run top on the > mono while displaying other things on the color. Is there a way to do > this with FreeBSD 2.1.0r? Nobody ever came around to implement it, and text consoles seem to be used less and lesser. Hellmuth Michaelis once thought about building this as an option into the pcvt driver, but it never actually happened. You should be able to use the monochrome card for the text screens, and the VGA for an Xserver however. I've once tried this with the pcvt driver (i think syscons had more troubles in handling it), and the only reason it failed was that my old ELSA Winner S3-based card was not useable for XFree86 with the BIOS disabled. Of course, only either the mono or the color screen could be active at a time, since there's only one keyboard. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)