From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 19:40:14 GMT
In article <3628@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
-} 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).
-}
-} 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.
Unless Dell's SVR4 is different from AT&T's SVR4 for the 386, this is
incorrect. I run X386 on a 1 meg card, and my virtual display size is
1024x1024, thus I am using the entire video memory for my X display. Yet,
by pressing Alt-SysReq-P I can cycle through multiple text vt's. And, I
wouldn't be surprised if I could run multiple copies of X386, but I haven't
tried it.
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