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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: additional features for linux
- Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.134504.710@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:45:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.192455.1325@xfswob.han.de>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Lines: 29
- Originator: jon@diomedes.robots
-
- In article <1992Dec3.192455.1325@xfswob.han.de> to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen) writes:
- >Hi there everyone,
- >
- >I'm really delighted about how well linux works on my system at home.
- >Everything runs pretty stable as far as I can see.
- >
- >I have some suggestions of things I'm still missing:
- >
- >1) Virtual consoles for the serial ports
- >
- > It would be very nice if someone could use more than one console
- > on a remote terminal. I don't know if that is possible to imple-
- > ment.
-
- Use screen, it should be on the archive sites, I picked up a copy some time
- ago.
-
-
- >5) X-Support for the ATI Ultra Pro 2
- >
- > Is there anybody working on an X-server which uses the special features of
- > this new generation of ATI-cards?
-
- ATI is a stupid as Diamond, so you won't see support for the extended features
- of the Ultra as the information is not available. The only documentation is
- for the 8514 commands that the Ultra uses, but not the faster special comands
- it has.
-
- Jon.
-