>The Linux console only allows one current tty. When you switch >away from the X server, it relinquishes the display and restores >text mode, it no longer has access to the display until you >switch back. When you switch to the other server, it has >control. > >It doesn't matter if these are 2 individual video cards or not, >as there can only be one current tty. > >The 2.6.x kernel has features to get past this limitation, >however I don't believe the marriage of the kernel and X server >is quite ready yet for this to actually work. Someone else can >comment on that or not. > >There is an ugly hack somewhere on the net which IIRC hacks both >the kernel and X server to allow a kludged solution to do this, >but it is just that, a "works for the guy who hacked it together" >kludge until something more proper is ready for regular usage. >I don't remember what it is called, but either someone else >reading this will know what I'm talking about and post a URL, or >you can probably find it without much effort on google. I remeber URL of ugly hack http://startx.times.lv Here is a kernel patch which allow more than one current tty. tty1-tty64 is splited to separate ranges tty1-tty7, tty8-15 and so on. Any tty range might be bounded with separate keyboard. Usage of unpatched xf86 allowed. Check out links for others hacks. My kinsfolk use it over one year, when my PC go to unpersonalized. Aivils Stoss _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
