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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:09:29 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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Subject: Re: linux as a minicomputer ?
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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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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