Re: AW: Multiple text consoles

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Ceturtdiena, 2. Febru=E2ris 2006 21:22, Matan Ziv-Av 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.

So if nvvgacon does not take over vgacon, then it is completely independ?
Can i run multiple nvvgacon simultaneous, if pci bus id specified
for each instance?
Is necessary XFree int10 real mode initialisation for each instance?
=46rom where You get magic values for ioremap()?

Aivils