On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 17:07, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi People! > > I've got dual head working in XFree, but am now curious - if I don't > start up XFree, is there any way I can run consoles on both monitors? > > inittab doesn't seem to help and I can't find any kernel options and I > can't find anything on the web. Does anyone have any ideas or is this > just not possible? > > Using 2.4.13 and woody.
There is a mingetty "patch" out there at: http://ylabs.igreconline.com/sites/mingetty/ Thats seems to do exactly what you want. Be sure to look into the equivs package if you build this so debian doesn't panic over dependencies. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-14.html Has another way using con2fb to "move" ttys to a framebuffer. I was interested in this at one time but lost my drive since I didn't like either way from a design standpoint. A google search for frambuffer multiple console should give you much more information than you need. --mike
