Subject: Re: multiple VTs on DEC alpha
To: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/26/1999 19:36:01
cpg@aladdin.de said:
> how do I enable multiple WSCONS VTs on an alpha machine (TGA card)? Is
> this supposed to work? 

No, this doesn't work yet. The tga driver answers every attempt
to allocate a second virtual screen with ENOMEM.
It wouldn't be hard to inmplement - just a matter of time and
equipment.

> On intel I simply added some lines in /etc/wscons.conf

It's not the architecture, it's the graphics driver. A VGA
on alpha supports VTs too.

best regards
Matthias