Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Console driver | From | Jason L Tibbitts III <> | Date | 24 Jun 1999 09:49:25 -0500 |
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>>>>> "IA" == Igor Abramov <Igor.Abramov@auriga.ru> writes:
IA> Is anybody working on something similar already ?
I have been toying with this for the past month or so. If you get Vojtech Pavlik's input patches (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input) you can have multiple keyboards and mice (PS/2, USB, serial, whatever) all present and have the keyboards directed to different consoles. Right now I have two Matrox cards in a machine with two text consoles up, each completely independent.
I have tried X, but only with the 'mga' driver. (I'm in the development group, so I'm using 3.9.) This does not work. I haven't tried the fbdev driver, though I doubt that if it works it will be fast enough to be useful. The XFree folks are interested in making this work with their drivers, but not until after 4.0 is available (which I agree is a very reasonable).
One odd thing I'm seeing now is that on the text consoles there's only one cursor; other displays just don't get one although they still work fine. Does anyone have any ideas how I might continue to play with this? I've just done the minimal work of compiling in the matroxfb stuff compiled with multi-head on. I haven't tried tuning the parameters except for append="video=map:01"
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