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Chris Jones wrote:
>
>So, what needs to be done to get wscons to support multiple virtual
>terminals on the alpha?  What about support for color?

Wscons does support multiple virtual terminals on the alpha, just
not on the TGA framebuffer that the multia uses.  I was thinking
about throwing it in, but it certainly begs a number of questions,
since a copy of the framebuffer memory would be a meg.  So, would
one just store the characters that are on the screen?  In which
case X probably wouldn't be too happy.  Or the fact that one can
combine graphics and text on a non-X screen if one writes the
appropriate app.

>For that matter, does anybody have any ideas as to why I can't get the
>keyboard bell to work on my multia?  I've fixed the drq line for wss
>in my config file, for what that's worth.  And dmesg claims that it
>attaches a device named isabeep0; shouldn't that do the right thing?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Chris
>
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 == Roland Dowdeswell
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