OK whoops :P
i have a comment about removing the monitor....
In MacOS, removing the monitor prevents the mouse from moving off the side
of the screen. however, in NetBSD, when i only had one monitor for awhile,
but two video busses, (and the monitor was only connected to one bus), the
Xserver still recognized my "other" monitor, because there was a whole
screen-full
of scrolling all the way around the sides of the screen (and it wasn't the
buggy xserver that let the cursor go around one of the sides of the
screen)
has anyone else noticed this "problem"? seems to me that the kernel or the
xserver can't tell if there's a monitor attached like MacOS can (or if it
can tell, it doesn't do anything about it.)
the bootlog message still recognizes both video busses even if there's
only
one monitor attached - i would expect it to, but maybe kernel or xserver
doesn't do something.
maybe i did something wrong.  i'll try fiddling with it again; i haven't
for a couple months.
  - a

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Armen Babikyan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I attempted to run color X on a Apple Nubus video card (2MB VRAM, fixed
> > resolution - 640x480, does 2,4,16,256 and millions of colors - no
> > thousands). I grabbed the lkm src from Taras' ftp directory on
> > ctpa03.mit.edu, patched it with a patch Colin Wood sent me, and compiled.
> > no problem there. i put my compiled module in /lkm, made the lkm device in
> > /dev, and added this line to /etc/lkm.conf:
> > 
> > some hardware specs: Mac IIvx (running -current-11-1-97 + GENERIC#47 +
> > booter <whatever>b5), 20MB ram, lots of disk space, internal video @1-bit,
> > 640x480, plus the nubus card, which i gave specs of earlier. i also have a
> > asante nubus ethernet card which works great, dunno if it matters. my
> > booting console was the internal video on the IIvx, which was B+W, could
> > this have caused that problem? i'll reboot and switch the booting console
> > provided you don't want me to type anything else at the debugger prompt.
> > 
> > oh yeah, i have two monitors on my IIvx, if you didn't figure that out
> > already :-)
> > 
> > anyone know what went wrong?
> 
> Ah! you didn't tell me you were still using internal video! This might
> very well be the problem.  _Remove_ the monitor on internal video and make
> the external one your booting console.  If this works, you can try
> reattaching the monitor on internal video, but you'll probably have to
> retain the external monitor as the booting console.
> 
> I hope this helps some.
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
>