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Re: Multiple screens?



On Monday 07 July 2008 14:34:10 Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 09:08, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:
> > Is there a way to have multiple screens on Ultra 10 running NetBSD?
> > Say I want
> > to start a new screen and connect to a remote host via XDMCP, how
> > do I switch
> > between the screens?
>
> What on earth are you talking about? Do you want to run more than one
> Xserver? Or one Xserver with more than one head?
> Anyway, you can use only one PCI graphics device for now, and only if
> it's the console. UPA or SBus graphics board don't have this
> restriction. So if you set the console to the onboard graphics chip
> you can use an UPA graphics board as 2nd head.
>
> have fun
> Michael

Well on i386 there used to be 5 consoles, when you start Xserver, it would 
start on console 5, you could start another Xserver on a different console. 
And you could switch between different consoles

So can I run two Xservers, on different consoles on the same machine?


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