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Hello,

> > Multiple text displays produce interesting problems:
> > - how do we tell which display is active? No driver I've seen cares
> > about that so there's no way to tell. With multiple wsdisplays
> > 'inactive' doesn't imply 'invisible'.
>=20
>   Normally, I think only one display terminal is created on startup -
> that being the console display.  Additional displays need to have the
> terminals created.  (/etc/wscons.conf is used to configure additional
> screens for wsdisplay0 using /dev/ttyEcfg.)

I'd expect one on each wsdisplay. But with multiple control devices
things look different of course.

>   If the Xserver is using wscons, it can select the display by using
> the appropriate device (/dev/ttyE0 or /dev/ttyF0 in the case of a
> DECstation with two displays).

XFree always opens /dev/ttyE0 on sparc64 and macppc.

have fun
Michael

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