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Re: (Multihead) Console Blanking

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> James Simmons <jsi...@ac...> wrote:
> > I'm one of the ones working on the new console system. Real multihead, meaning
> > the console system supports mulitple displays and multiple keyboards, needed a
> > big code rewrite of the console system so it should hold off to 2.5.X. Have 
> > you come up with a solution by the way for multihead blanking. I haven't :(
> > Ideas anyone? 
> 
> I played with a patch to support the MDA as a second monitor when I was using
> 2.0.x, that supported screen blanking on both monitors. I will dig the patch
> out and have a read. How are you going to do multiple keyboards? USB? Or is
> all of that kind of stuff in an FAQ I have not spotted?

    You have a patch. Great :) Could you reply with the patch. Thank you
very much. 
    As for keyboards using Vojtech's input devices we support multiple
keyboards via USB. Also you can do what I have. Plug one ps/2 into the
ps/2 keyboard port and another one into the ps/2 mouse port. Then you can 
attached a sun keyboard via the parrallel port. I have the sun keyboard
but you need to build the adapter yourself which I haven't done yet. 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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Re: (Multihead) Console Blanking

[Edward B. <ed...@de...>]

James Simmons <jsi...@ac...> wrote:
>     You have a patch. Great :) Could you reply with the patch. Thank you
> very much. 

No dude, I think one of us may have misunderstood the other. I used a patch,
written for Linux 2.0.x, that allowed me to use my computer multihead with the
VGA monitor as the first head, and an IBM MDA as the second head. That patch
had support for blanking on both monitors. I think you probably got that bit.
The problem is, that if you read it there have been a lot of code changes
since the patch was written.  The console has been separated out a lot more
since then. I suppose the patch could be used for ideas. I will try and dig it
out and attach it.

Found it, I think. It is a 100k .tar.gz, I do not want to mess with the
mailing lists, you can have it in a separate private mail. 

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Re: (Multihead) Console Blanking

[Edward B. <ed...@de...>]

Edward Betts <ed...@de...> wrote:
> James Simmons <jsi...@ac...> wrote:
> >     You have a patch. Great :) Could you reply with the patch. Thank you
> > very much. 
> 
> No dude, I think one of us may have misunderstood the other. I used a patch,
> written for Linux 2.0.x, that allowed me to use my computer multihead with the
> VGA monitor as the first head, and an IBM MDA as the second head. That patch
> had support for blanking on both monitors. I think you probably got that bit.
> The problem is, that if you read it there have been a lot of code changes
> since the patch was written.  The console has been separated out a lot more
> since then. I suppose the patch could be used for ideas. I will try and dig it
> out and attach it.
> 
> Found it, I think. It is a 100k .tar.gz, I do not want to mess with the
> mailing lists, you can have it in a separate private mail. 

Sorry, sent it to the mailing lists be accident.

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Re: (Multihead) Console Blanking

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> The problem is, that if you read it there have been a lot of code changes
> since the patch was written.  The console has been separated out a lot more
> since then. I suppose the patch could be used for ideas. I will try and dig it
> out and attach it.

Thank you for the code. I glanced over it and see it is more than just
multihead blanking support. Its multihead support. No problem. I know the
console code well enough to see what you are doing. 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

James Simmons  [jsi...@li...]               ____/| 
fbdev/console/gfx developer                             \ o.O| 
http://www.linux-fbdev.org                               =(_)= 
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net                            U
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

Re: (Multihead) Console Blanking

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:55:14AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > James Simmons <jsi...@ac...> wrote:
> > > I'm one of the ones working on the new console system. Real multihead, meaning
> > > the console system supports mulitple displays and multiple keyboards, needed a
> > > big code rewrite of the console system so it should hold off to 2.5.X. Have 
> > > you come up with a solution by the way for multihead blanking. I haven't :(
> > > Ideas anyone? 
> > 
> > I played with a patch to support the MDA as a second monitor when I was using
> > 2.0.x, that supported screen blanking on both monitors. I will dig the patch
> > out and have a read. How are you going to do multiple keyboards? USB? Or is
> > all of that kind of stuff in an FAQ I have not spotted?
> 
>     You have a patch. Great :) Could you reply with the patch. Thank you
> very much. 
>     As for keyboards using Vojtech's input devices we support multiple
> keyboards via USB. Also you can do what I have. Plug one ps/2 into the
> ps/2 keyboard port and another one into the ps/2 mouse port. Then you can 
> attached a sun keyboard via the parrallel port. I have the sun keyboard
> but you need to build the adapter yourself which I haven't done yet. 

Sun keyboards connect to the serial port. AT keyboards can be attached
to KBD, AUX and parallel ports.

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