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Re: VGA/MDA, Terminals



Hi Peter,

actually I would like the console to come up on the VGA. The idea is to have
an old Hercules monitor standing somewhere and displaying status-info. For
this to work the only thing I need is some ttyxx to point to the MDA card.

Schlomo

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Peres <plp@actcom.co.il>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: VGA/MDA, Terminals


>
>After considering the matter some more, I have come to the conclusion that
>it should be possible to force Linux consoles to come up on the monochrome
>adapter using a LILO incantation to pass an explicit console to the
>kernel. This should skip the SVGA probe.
>
>X11 will not skip the probe however, and should come up on the graphics
>card.
>
>This has to be tried out, I haven't, but from what I remember in the linux
>hacking sessions, the boot/load code of the kernel determines the type of
>video card, and I don't remember if the LILO option overrides this or
>not.
>
>Anyway, if this does not work out of the box, it is to be considered a bug
>and hacked into the kernel for the future (together with the printer
>console and serial hack which allows single board machines to be debugged)
>.... ;)
>
>PS: I believe that there is stuff in Dejanews on this.
>
>Peter
>
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