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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5orl4d$921@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5orb0b$hhg$1@nntp2.ba.best.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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43554 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)