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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Device driver for second MONO console?
Date: 25 Jun 1997 17:39:25 GMT
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Zenin <zenin@best.com> wrote:

> And/or, would it be posible to use the mono as the main system console,
> and still use the VGA via X?

I once did this with the pcvt driver, although a few bogosities remain
due to the shared keyboard.  Basically, you still have the notion of
an active VT (that's the one that owns the keyboard).

>  Do the X servers (XFree86) need a device
> in /dev, or do they talk to the hardware directly?

They need /dev/ttyv0 in order to get a filehandle to start with,
mainly for keyboard access.  VGA framebuffer access is mostly done
through other methods for modern graphics adapters.  Old banked ISA
VGAs might still work through /dev/ttyv0 (using mmap()).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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