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

Hi!

  Thanks to Matan I got svgalib to run on ruby. It also helped me discover
a few bugs. This includes what makes XF4 lock up. The raw mode code works
fine. Linux does NOT follow SVS4 VT specs where ruby now does. VT 0 being
the foreground console no longer makes sense in a multihead environment. 
This means /dev/tty0 will be going away. In fact this mismatch of the
first VC being 0 and 1 is what was confussing X windows. So in the code at
home I migrating everything over have the first VC 0 instead of 1.
/dev/tty0 is going away. In doing so I managed to crash the kernel in the 
exact same way X has been. Now I go to find the problem. 

P.S

  I also have new code to sync up CVS vidoe layer with fbdev in the
lastest kernel. I will be comitting this soon.

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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

Hi!

  Good news. Our CVS is in sync with test6. I fixed the reboot bug. What
was happening was event packets still where coming in after rebooting but
the VC where already gone so it was oopsing. Now I disable all keyboard
input events from coming into the console system right before I call
ctrl_alt_del. So the console system should now be very stable. Understand
that /dev/tty0 is now avalaible as a normal console. To have mingetty 
run on tty0 you just need to change the /etc/inittab settings similar to
the following. Take alook at your inittab since they vary from distro to
to distro. 

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty0
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
  
TODO:

 Make fonts per VC. Right now they are not except in the fbcon layer. So
this will change. 

 Make the keymap per VC or VT? I have to think about that.

Minor ESC command fixes. Domini ? 

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