Re: Dualhead videocard: 2 monitors in text mode.

[Matan Ziv-Av <ma...@sv...>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Crazy AMD K7 wrote:

> since I haven't find anything more relating to my question than this
> forum, I decided to post here.
> Can anyone explain or give me a link where I can find an answer to the
> question how to make 2 monitors work in text mode?

When using more than one video card, there are two issues:

* first is initializing of the non=primary video cards into text mode. I
   do this with vbios.vm86 program from the x86emu package.
* second issue is having the kernel drive the non-primary video cards in
   text mode. The standard vgacon needs a few card specific chganges to
   work on non-primary cards. Versionf of vgacon for NV3 (nvidia
   riva128), and matrox cards is here:
   http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/textcon.tgz




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Matan Ziv-Av.                         ma...@sv...