On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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:
I suspect the second video card you are trying to use is broken. I have used both the "multimon" kernel patch and the "mda" module with success on a Hercules card. I'll summarize the pros and cons of both, should anyone else be interested. multimon: + lets you assign a range of ttys to the mono monitor - you must choose this range by editing the kernel source and re-compile the kernel if you change your mind - when you run (or switch to) an X server on the VGA card, _both_ text screens go blank, so the mono monitor is useless while you are using X on the VGA monitor; the text screens come back when the X server exits or when you switch to a text console mda: + doesn't go blank if the VGA card runs X - is a 'character device', so it only accepts output from programs I have used the mda module for quite a time, constantly running a 'top -i' at it. I couldn't find another use for it. Nowadays the mono monitor is not even attached to the computer. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
