Re: Two video cards ... separate text and graphical usage

phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
As an alternative to an issue I have that may be specific to the old
video card I am using, I am considering two other options:

1. Finding a NEW video card model that is well supported in Xorg and
is also well supported in text mode with SVGATextMode. Unfortunately,
SVGATextMode is no longer being maintained

Yeah, forget this.

2. Use two video cards. The old card would be used for text mode and
the new card would be used for X.

3. Get a dual-head video card, set it up with separate Screens. Run
your normal X junk on :0.0, run a maximized xterm (konsole, aterm,
gnome-terminal...) on :0.1. It'd probably be easier and would certainly
be more flexible, and you could convert it to Xinerama when you wanted
to do that.

None of them explained how to use one for text mode (not frame buffer)
and the other for X in graphical mode.

Hardly anyone wants to do that, because X is where it's at for 99.5% of
the users. http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ , however, might be
worth looking at. It might require some non-n00b-friendly configuration
to get it working the way you want it.

If anyone wants to suggest to use text under X instead of console text
mode, would you be prepared to assist in making text under X work
exactly the same under X as it does in console text mode? I'm not
sure it is even possible. But if it is, it might involve a lot of
work, such as rewriting xterm to use acceleration, and changing the
mouse behaviour.

Why would xterm need to handle mouse acceleration? If you want to
change the mouse behavior in X, that's what xset and multiple frontends
that change the same accel/thresh numbers xset does are for. There's
also the Resolution line in the input device stanzas for mice in
xorg.conf, and xmodmap to remap mouse buttons.


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