Re: two consoles

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Quoting Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...>:

> Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?
> 
> 
> I have this hardware:
> AGP Radeon
> PCI Rage128
> USB mouse
> PS2 mouse
> USB keyboard
> PS2 keyboard
> 
> If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
> USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?
> 
 short answer "NO"
you can try to write directly to James Simmons
(the main developer of the linuxconsole project)
if you do so please CC the list too.
He mentioned several times on lkml that independent consoles won't go in 2.6
and is probably a 2.7 thing, but never posted firm statement to the project
mailing list.

 long answer:

you can try the ruby backport to 2.4,
everything works stable for several people
and i don't remember someone who tried, but didn't suceeded.
but ... the new framebuffer is not ported,
so you can have only multiple independent X users with a single VGA console,
there is no support for multiple independent framebuffer consoles.

there was also a working patch against 2.5.59, but again without framebuffer
support ( see the download page )
the url is http://startx.times.lv


good luck,

svetljo
( one happy backstreet ruby user )