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Article #87Re: Mwm and two monitors on one DECstation 5000/120
From: Joel Gringorten
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:02
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:02
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In article <1992Jul21.193658.16979@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, cfraizer@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Colin Fraizer) writes: |> |> I recently received a 19" monochrome (mx) monitor and card which I've |> added to my DECstation 5000/120 which already had a 16" color (cx) monitor |> and card. I want to be able to use both monitors with X and Mwm. |> |> Both monitors successfully perform the diagnostics, but I am unable |> to make Xws and/or Mwm work with the second monitor (slot 1). |> Any suggestions? You need to reconfigure the kernel for two frame buffers. Either use doconfig, or add another frame buffer to your configuration file and rebuild your kernel. You already have a line like: device fb0 at ibus? vector fbint Just add another like: device fb1 at ibus? vector fbint -joel
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!gringort From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Mwm and two monitors on one DECstation 5000/120 Message-ID: <1992Jul21.140257@wsl.dec.com> Date: 21 Jul 92 21:02:57 GMT References: <1992Jul21.193658.16979@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Reply-To: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) Distribution: na Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 22