From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available Date: 16 Sep 1992 18:59:15 GMT
In article <1992Sep16.160457.20718@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>As for the independent VC idea, I too, would add my voice to that. I
>was impressed by a friends rs6000 as he toggled between VC's, one of
>which was in text mode, and TWO of which were running two separate,
>independent copies of X-Windows! (Actually, being able to flip out of
>X to a text terminal would be handy).
>
>Since I lack the knowhow, I won't be able to contribute this myself :(,
>but would like to add my support for the idea :). BTW - joel, where is
>the code to which you referred. If I get time between thesis writing
>and installing X-stuff on our suns I may give it a crack anyway.
I know that DELL SVr4 is capable of doing this, but the real limitation
is how much memory you have on the video card. If you are using it all for X,
then it is impossible (with the Dell system) to have any VC's. If you are
using a lower resolution X display, then you can switch from X to the regular
VC's. I think you are almost always limited to one X session.
-Eric