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two consoles

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?


I have this hardware:
AGP Radeon
PCI Rage128
USB mouse
PS2 mouse
USB keyboard
PS2 keyboard

If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?

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jon...@ya...

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Re: two consoles

[<shs...@st...>]

Quoting Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...>:

> Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?
> 
> 
> I have this hardware:
> AGP Radeon
> PCI Rage128
> USB mouse
> PS2 mouse
> USB keyboard
> PS2 keyboard
> 
> If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
> USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?
> 
 short answer "NO"
you can try to write directly to James Simmons
(the main developer of the linuxconsole project)
if you do so please CC the list too.
He mentioned several times on lkml that independent consoles won't go in 2.6
and is probably a 2.7 thing, but never posted firm statement to the project
mailing list.

 long answer:

you can try the ruby backport to 2.4,
everything works stable for several people
and i don't remember someone who tried, but didn't suceeded.
but ... the new framebuffer is not ported,
so you can have only multiple independent X users with a single VGA console,
there is no support for multiple independent framebuffer consoles.

there was also a working patch against 2.5.59, but again without framebuffer
support ( see the download page )
the url is http://startx.times.lv


good luck,

svetljo
( one happy backstreet ruby user )

Re: two consoles

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> > Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?
> > 
> > 
> > I have this hardware:
> > AGP Radeon
> > PCI Rage128
> > USB mouse
> > PS2 mouse
> > USB keyboard
> > PS2 keyboard
> > 
> > If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
> > USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?
> > 
>  short answer "NO"
> you can try to write directly to James Simmons
> (the main developer of the linuxconsole project)
> if you do so please CC the list too.
> He mentioned several times on lkml that independent consoles won't go in 2.6
> and is probably a 2.7 thing, but never posted firm statement to the project
> mailing list.

Correct. It will not go in until 2.7.X. Sorry I have been away since fbdev 
developement is taking all my time. Now it is possible to write programs 
that use /dev/fbX and /dev/input/eventX and you can have multi-desktop 
programmings as long as you ignore the console system. 

> there was also a working patch against 2.5.59, but again without framebuffer
> support ( see the download page )
> the url is http://startx.times.lv

The console stuff against 2.5.59 is very incomplete. Once the framebuffer 
stuff is complete I plan to ramp up console developmente again. 

Re: two consoles

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

With 2.5.65 is it possible to configure the USB
mouse/keyboard so that they don't send their input to
the console? I have the event interface enabled. I
also tried enabling/disabling various options but I
can't seem to shut off the USB devices.

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Re: two consoles

[<shs...@st...>]

Quoting Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...>:

> With 2.5.65 is it possible to configure the USB
> mouse/keyboard so that they don't send their input to
> the console? I have the event interface enabled. I
> also tried enabling/disabling various options but I
> can't seem to shut off the USB devices.

you have to modify the kernel source,
i used to have a small patch, but i deleted it by misstake.
As far i remember you have to modify drivers/input/keybdev.c
in the function where the keyboard registers to allow only registering of PS2
keyboards (i think useing the PHYS field).
may be you can find it in the lists for about 3-4 months or a bit more.

about the mices, you can use them independent.
you just have to use the apropriate device files:
/dev/input/mouseX where X is the number of the mouse starting from 0
will give you independent mices
 
/dev/input/mice will merge the input of all mices, so don't use it


best,

svetljo

Re:two consoles

[<Aiv...@un...>]

>Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?
no

>I have this hardware:
>AGP Radeon
>PCI Rage128
>USB mouse
>PS2 mouse
>USB keyboard
>PS2 keyboard
>
>If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
>USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?

You can manipulate with drivers/char/keyboard.c

--- linux-2.5.66/drivers/char/keyboard.c      2003-03-24 22:00:19.000000000
+0000
+++ linux-2.5.66/drivers/char/keyboard.c.chg  2003-03-26 15:22:30.000000000
+0000
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ static struct input_handle *kbd_connect(

     if ((i == BTN_MISC) && !test_bit(EV_SND, dev->evbit))
          return NULL;
-
+    if(strcmp(dev->phys,"isa0060/serio1/input0")) return NULL;
     if (!(handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL)))
          return NULL;
     memset(handle, 0, sizeof(struct input_handle));

I am not assured about this patch. This one should accept PS/2 keyboard
and reject all others keyboards.
read about Your keyborads in /proc/bus/input/devices .

Aivils Stoss