Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lll-tis!ames!xanth!amon-re.cs.odu.edu!tadguy From: tadguy@amon-re.cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: want to access monochrome and cga at same time Message-ID: <5478@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 7 Jun 88 03:14:49 GMT Sender: news@xanth.cs.odu.edu Reply-To: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. Lines: 33 I'm sure this has been asked before, but until recently I didn't read comp.unix.microport... I am currently working on a '386 box running Microport UNIX. When it boots, it uses the monochrome card installed as the console. However, the machine also has a CGA card installed. I would like to be able to access the CGA card as a tty from UNIX, but haven't found a way to do so. I don't need keyboard input form it: I just want to use it as an output device. The way I would figure it would be done would be to open one of the virtual consoles (say, /dev/cons3) and perform an ioctl on it to make it suddenly use the CGA card instead of the monochrome card. However, I haven't found any appropriate ioctls for this. SO, can it be done? Can I have the monochrome card functioning as the console and the CGA card as just another tty (without input)? If so, how? Code examples would be appreciated, but not necessary. If I need to RTFM, just point out where... (Respond by mail when possible). Thanks. ...tad Tad Guy (804)-440-4529 UUCP: tadguy@xanth.UUCP Department of Computer Science or: ...!uunet!xanth!tadguy Old Dominion University new ARPA: tadguy@cs.odu.edu Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0162 old ARPA: tadguy%xanth.UUCP@SUN.COM