From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 23:13:59 +0200 (MET DST)

Re: Multiheaded Linux

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Brian Julin wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Paananen Osmo wrote:
> > So going multiheaded right now (excluding MDA) is really messy and requires 
> > rewriting of the drivers?
> 
> Some handle it, some don't.
> 
> > GGI is going to support multiheaded displays in the future with less pain, 
> > isn't it?
> 
> The GGI-console system through EvStack will support up to 16 adaptors by 
> default, more with some kernel tweaking and the drivers will fall into step in 
> time.  It yet remains to be seen what the fbcon console manager will offer for 
> multi-adaptor support; it does something with MDA already but I couldn't get
> that part to compile.

That's on ia32. On non-Intel multihead with frame buffer devices has been
working since a long time. Frank Neumann has 3 video boards in his Amiga, apart
from the Amiga native graphics.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium