From: cummings@bbird8.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Multi Monitors??? Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 16:47:55 GMT
In article <1cl6jjINNfgg@venture.ksu.ksu.edu>, probreak@venture.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
|> Ke-Wei Ma <km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|>
|> >Does linux support two vga monitors under X????
|>
|> >Ke-Wei
|>
|> It doesn't under the current configuration, but I guess it would be possible
|> if your graphics card had enough memory. I have heard talk of wanting to
|> run X in one vt, and then switch to another vt and be in text mode again.
|> So, if this works someday, I guess you could tell X to start in another vt
|> and to display on a specific video port.
The S3 video chips are supposed to support this in hardware. It's possible
to be using a graphics mode, and reserve the last bit of memory for
a text window, allowing you to switch back and forth between them
without any data loss (assuming that the programs using the graphics
memory don't overwrite the memory being used by the text programs).
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