Re: CGA adapter

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

You can't do multimonitor on the ISA bus.

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:

>
>Hello,
>
>I have installed an old CGA video card in my computer, next to my VGA
>card. The system boots with (view on, I mean) the VGA card. When I load
>the modules fbcon-hga.o and hgafb.o, the CGA card takes over the video
>output and the VGA card drops dead (well, it stops working). When I start
>X, X is displayed through the VGA card on the VGA monitor. So then I have
>two views: X on VGA and a console on CGA.
>
>But, when I am under X, the console stops working, until I switch to
>console mode. I want to use the CGA as a logscreen for syslogd.
>
>So, how can you let the CGA card working while you are under X, or how
>must you configure Linux when you want to use two videocards in general?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Sebastiaan
>
>
>--
>$ man clone
>
>BUGS
>	Main feature not yet implemented...
>
>
>
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