Subject: Re: more summer of code fun
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2005 10:45:04
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Hello,

> Is there some reason you can't boot a mac with serial console and=20
> still use X11 on an FB/GPU+keyboard+mouse?

The iBook has no traditional serial interfaces, so there's no way to get
a serial console on it. USB->RS232 frobs won't work either since they
need kernel support. On a bigger Mac it should be possible to run X on a
2nd graphics board so it won't obscure the console but that requires
massive hacking in Xfree's stupid handling of PCI devices ( I've done
that on the S900, but since there's no way to get another graphics
controller into the iBook... )

have fun
Michael

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