On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
>
> : > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this
> : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps
> : > that support it (tcc).)
> :
> : There is no current support for this in the ELKS code, but it does appeal
> : to me. Any idea how it can be done at a low level anyone? If there is
> : source code available for the DOS software, then it could be ported.
> :
> I think the answer to this is that each virtual console needs to have
> a pointer to it's screen driver code, where there's multiple screen drivers running.
> I don't know how you'd want to specify which VC gets VGA vs herc though...
Why not just have a /dev/2tty driver set for the new monitor and
have init asign logins to /dev/tty and /dev/2tty?
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
