3.4. Notes on using multiple VT's & VGA console

As the frame buffer layer is not back-ported to linux-2.4, only the primary graphic card is initialised during the boot process. Secondary graphic cards can only be initialised by an X server, so you will have a single VGA text console on the primary graphic card.

Feature versions of Backstreet Ruby/ Ruby for linux-2.6 (and hopefully linux-2.8) will support multiple VT's trough framebuffer consoles.

To keep VGA console properly working it is important first to be started the XFree instance which will drive the graphic card which is used for VGA console(the graphic card defined as primary in BIOS).