>From the keyboard of Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com:
> 
> PCVT seems to know how to get the video back in the right mode

No, it does not know. The knowledge is inside the X server which is the
only one knowing which registers it has changed, in which order and so
on. Not even to think about the programmable clock generators ....

> One last hurdle being that you can't run a serial console and virtual
> terminals at the same time.

Hey, why not ? (Ok, Ok, it seems it's time for me to test this setup again ..)

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis        GFKT HCS Computertechnik GmbH        Hamburg, Europe
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