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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!zenin!thrush.omix.com!byron From: Zenin <zenin@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Device driver for second MONO console? Date: 26 Jun 1997 21:06:54 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5oulle$5p9$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5orb0b$hhg$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <5orl4d$921@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: thrush.omix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43625 J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > I once did this with the pcvt driver, although a few bogosities remain > due to the shared keyboard. Basically, you still have the notion of > an active VT (that's the one that owns the keyboard). Hmm, any pointers on where this configuration can be set? Would I need to hard code this into the pcvt driver code? > They need /dev/ttyv0 in order to get a filehandle to start with, > mainly for keyboard access. VGA framebuffer access is mostly done > through other methods for modern graphics adapters. Old banked ISA > VGAs might still work through /dev/ttyv0 (using mmap()). Ok, so then I'd leave /dev/ttyv0 asis and move the pcvt driver to a differnet device file? -- -Zenin zenin@best.com