Re: Compiling 2.4.0 with ruby.

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

> vt_ioctl.c:588: structure has no member named `vcs'

Try the lastest CVS. It is fixed. 

> I'm sure I don't understand what I'm doing and have some kernel config
> to do. 

You can send mne your .config file.

> Can I have a go on multiple consoles with cirrus logic (gd5480)
> hardware?

Not yet. This requires rewriting the fbcon layer which I'm about to do. 

> What are my limitations and what can I do? Am I limited to some certain
> hardware. 

Right now I have only worked with the vgacon and mdacon driver. I got both
working pretty well together.

> I have a hunch that multiple X sessions are a bit pre-mature
> at the moment, but that's what I'm after in the long run.

It can be done with XFree86. You have to do a 

start -vt 0
start -vt 16

This tells it which vc to run on. For the ruby tree 16 VCs belong to one
VT. Unfortunely I haven't got the fbcon layer going yet. Also for each
fbdev driver we have to make them firmware independent as well. Since most
video cards depend on the BIOS to intialize them. Unfortunely PC BIOS
don't see multiple video cards so only the first one on the PCI bus gets
intialized :-(