Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-29 Thread Need Coffee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Thanks, but my goal was not just to add more text consoles, it was to >> actually create more >> VTs on existing heads. I have 3 monitors. We're all painfully aware >> of the Xorg limitations >> with multiple pci graphics cards. So, I wa

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Thanks, but my goal was not just to add more text consoles, it was to > actually create more > VTs on existing heads. I have 3 monitors. We're all painfully aware > of the Xorg limitations > with multiple pci graphics cards. So, I wanted to run them in text > mode (80x50 of course :) > > 80x

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-24 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
Something like that? http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/aa/Screen-triplehead-galois.jpg Maybe I don't understand what do you want to do,but I haven't problem with X and work in terminals.I have a lot of them on my two or three monitors. 2009/5/23 Need Coffee : > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:37 AM,

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-22 Thread Need Coffee
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > Just use USB to RS323 convert cables and have as many heads as you like off > of dumb terminals. Or old laptops. > > > ;-) Thanks, but my goal was not just to add more text consoles, it was to actually create more VTs on existing head

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > Just use USB to RS323 convert cables and have as many heads as you like off > of dumb terminals. Or old laptops. RS323? Is that a new "standard"? Or do you mean RS232? :)

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Just use USB to RS323 convert cables and have as many heads as you like off of dumb terminals. Or old laptops. ;-) 2009/5/22 Need Coffee > Hi, I have kind of a weird question. > > I have two video cards in an amd64/-current machine. > > Both cards have dual-head capability. > > At the text con

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Nick Holland
Need Coffee wrote: > Hi, I have kind of a weird question. > > I have two video cards in an amd64/-current machine. > > Both cards have dual-head capability. > > At the text console, the same text appears on both ports. > > Would it be possible to either: > > - make the ports separate consoles