I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a "multimon" kernel patch that has compiled cleanly on 2.0.33. A second approach is called "mda" and is a module.
Neither of them works for me yet. Multimon seems to show the most promise, and apparently is the more flexible approach in all, anyway. I suspect the mono card may not be good: the linux kernel boots with both monitors established by the kernel during the boot process, but I can't get a boot from the mono card, even if I remove the svga card---the bios won't even write the change of monitor type to cmos. I set gettys up on tty9 and tty11 for the mono monitor: when I switch to those vc's, the cursor disappears from the svga monitor; but it never shows up on the mono monitor---that monitor never does a single thing ever. Any suggestions would be appreciated. My experiments are encouraging, at least, so I wanted to mention them with respect to the current thread. The URLs are: multimon for 2.0.32: http://trap.mountain-view.ca.us/~tom/projects mda : http://www.pandh.demon.co.uk A GGI project was mentioned in the mda readme as developing multimonitor configurations: http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi The multimon patches look to be compatible with CGA, as well as mono monitors. Alan Davis -- "Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our [EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring." Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl Sagan GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .