Re: keyboard

[Antoine M. <an...@go...>]

> I need to VT switch to change which X is active, I guess
> > tha's because they share the same keyboard. If I get one of the Xs to use
> > the usb keyboard, will they both be running concurrently then? Or do I need
> > something extra...
>
> Well that is a little more complex. I seen another posting about this.

Anyone got any more info on this?

> Right now with ruby only vgacon, mdacon, and nvida text mode are
> supported. The fbdev layer is incomplete. I have found matrox cards
> usually like to be booted first.

My BIOS has AGP first (the matrox is on PCI), and it works quite
happily (+xinerama, fb tools...) - only error message  is:
"Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!"
"Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!"
But I guess that's something for my BIOS setup. (shadow rom or something)

> I know of no way to make one card boot
> before another. Petr, you have any ideas ?

It is not crucial, but it would be nice (19" instead of 14"), in the meantime
I'll boot in straight text mode, but then I can't use X (don't ask me why my
video card needs a framebuffer to be initialised properly for X...)

>   How do you get the fbcon layer to even compile for ruby? I didn't think
> it compiled.

I thought vesa or matrox did (or maybe it was an older version, or maybe
I am just going insane again)
The USB is broken too.

> Also alot of the fbcon layer has global variables meaning it
> not really multihead safe. I'm rewriting that code to make it really
> multihead safe but I'm not finished.
>    The reason con2fb doesn't work is because with the new console
> system it automatically allocates 16 VCs to each head. You don't need to
> do con2fb because it should be done automatically for you. With your setup
> with the fbcon layer you should have 2 consoles come up for you automatically.
> The console code also prevents things like VC switching to a different
> head than your on.

So how can I switch/use to the second head?
Or do I just attach a keyboard to the second head?
- no quite clear in *my* head yet, but getting there.

> > > Look at ruby CVS code for xfree86.
> > Where is this tree?
> Grab the ruby tree and right at the top you see a xfree86 directory.

I still don't see it! (ls -lR | grep -i xfree => nothing)
[antoine@shami ruby]$ ls
AGAINST-2.4.0-test7  CVS  app-patches  linux  utils

> Go for it. I noticed the lack of docs myself. I atempted to read their
> code but it was such a mess I gave up.

docs what docs. ;-(
Do you think there is any chance of getting the Xfree86 people to point me in
the right direction? Or spare me a few minutes (like you guys did).

Many Thanks
Antoine