Re: linux as a minicomputer ?
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:09:29 +0200
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:41:26AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > > It IS the kernel's fault, because only one VT can be active. The
> > > kernel VT stuff needs to be redesigned to hadle multiple VT at the
> > > same time ...
> >
> > Yes and no. You shouldn't need VTs to run Xservers at all.
>
> Still a kernel problem, what if all the users want to run
> vgacon/fbcon instead of X? One VT per physical interface
> is what we need, rather than "per machine".
Yes. James Simmons has this work almost done.
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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