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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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