[SunRescue] Dual Frame Buffers on Sparc...

[Fleet Captain Druaga]

Most Kewl!  I'll try that when I get my SS2 or IPX in here.

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of James Lockwood
> >Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 5:19 PM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dual Frame Buffers on Sparc...
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Fleet Captain Druaga wrote:
> >
> >> Say for example that you wanted to display on two monitors or
> >you had an
> >> extra frame buffer with an actual VGA 15 pin on it and didn't
> >want to have
> >> to worry about which type of monitor to plug it into.  (I
> >actually have an
> >> 8-bit VGA frame buffer - I love E-Bay!)
> >>
> >> I work on my Sun box at work when I'm not busy but I like to
> >take it home
> >> each day and it would be nice to be able to run off of either the Sun
> >> monitor at work or the VGA one at home and not have to use an
> >adapter of
> >> change out the frame buffer each time.
> >>
> >> It's really just a curiosity question as I don't hold much
> >hope that two
> >> display cards will work at the same time.
> >
> >This is Real Hardware, they will just plug in and work.  You can set the
> >console to either one in Openboot, and once the system is booted and X
> >starts you can have it start on either display individually or both
> >simultaneously giving you a larger desktop.  With a special cable you can
> >even hook up more than one keyboard/mouse to give you several completely
> >independent "seats", each with their own login prompt and session.
> >
> >I used to run 3 framebuffers (a cg6, a cg3 and a bw2) on my SS1+ for a
> >desktop size of 3456x900 back in the SunOS 4.1.3 days.  Worked like a
> >charm.
> >
> >-James
> >
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