From: kebang@krylov.cnd.mcgill.ca (Lin Kebang c/o Shrier) Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 18:20:57 GMT
guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
> 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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> ``written by a drunken insane pathological liar'' guru@stasi.bradley.edu
Then why don't you try it? I think it would be easy.
Cheers!
--Kebang