Subject: Re: x configuring...
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/27/2005 22:20:54
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Michael wrote:
>> is such a "2 person" setup possible at all w. netbsd, but on
>> which architecture?
>
> As I said, you can use the onboard video chip as first head ( it needs
> to be the console ) and an UPA board as 2nd.
> Multihead configurations with two SBus cards or two Creators just work.
> ( not on an U10 obviously but I have an U1 with two cg6 and others tried
> two Creators in a U60 )
There are also wscons issues. The wscons model assumes a single console
and multiplexes all input. It would probably work if you had one wscons
console with a USB keyboard and another using the old /dev/kbd,/dev/ms
interfaces and a serial keyboard/mouse. But I haven't a clue how you
would even start to set up such a system. Or even if there is a machine
that has the required combination of SBus/PCI/UPA/USB/serial hardware to
achieve the goal.
Eduardo