Re: AW: Multiple text consoles

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

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Unger Richard wrote:

> Multiple VGA text consoles seems difficult (Avilis pointed out that only
> one VGA device per PCI domain is allowed) - I really know too little
> about it, but it seems to me that one runs into BIOS/Hardware issues
> that make more than one VGA device impossible.

Actually, multiple VGA text consoles are not that hard. Most PCI card 
allow alternate access to both VGA registers and VGA memory thru the PCI 
regions.
I adapted vgacon to work on nvidia and matrox cards:
http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/textcon.tgz
but it should be easy to make it more generic.


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