Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jan 03 2011 - 14:42:35 EST


From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:39:01 +0000

> Secondly, is Linux fully capable of handling different graphic cards
> simultaneously? For example, plug in a pair of monitors and have
> consoles on both with disparate graphic cards i.e. XVR-500 and S3ViRGE
> etc?

Technically I don't think it can do it currently. Maybe just for
kernel message logging, but not for actual login consoles.

One TTY device is marked as the "console" and that's where all
tty[0-9]+ devices get instantiated upon.
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