Re: ruby : A bit simpler keyboard adding for multiple locale X servers

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

> Here is dumb console driver created by me for X.

Hm. I see dummycon has come back to tease me. 

> Dumb console create VT and then do nothig.
> All work do linuxconsole vt-manager.
> You can configure dumb with kernel command line "dumbcon=x",
> where x is number of dumb consoles.
> Every console is binded with /dev/tty's depended from
> MAX _NR_USER_CONSOLES.

Hm. Go add about the number of VTs. 

> Sample:
> file vt_kern.h
> #define MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES 4

MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES is how many VCs per VT device. This is always 16.
MAX_NR_CONSOLES represents how many total VCs you can have. Dividing the
two you see wwe can have at most 4 VTs. 

> VGA configured, DUMB cofigured, command line "dumbcon=2" .
> 
> Result
> /dev/tty1 VGA
> /dev/tty2 VGA
> /dev/tty3 VGA
> /dev/tty4 VGA
> /dev/tty5 DUMB 0
> /dev/tty6 DUMB 0
> /dev/tty7 DUMB 0
> /dev/tty8 DUMB 0
> /dev/tty9 DUMB 1
> /dev/tty10     DUMB 1
> /dev/tty11     DUMB 1
> /dev/tty12     DUMB 1

It should be 

/dev/tty0 to /dev/tty15 VGA  /dev/tty16 to /dev/tty31 dummycon.
 
> This are tested by me with xdm, triple graphic login succesfully run.
> Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers .
> Seems kdm, gdm don't like multiple X or wrong configuration on my end.
> X patch is necessary.

Can you post the patch :-)

> Q: Why linuxconsole vt-manager is better as separate keyboard driver for X.
> A: Linuxconsole project already have tons of keyboard drivers. All You can
> add to X
>      via /dev/tty.

Well XFree86 is currently based on using the VT. This will go away in the
future. I already have spoken to Jim Getty about this and he already is
working on making XFree86 independent of VT switching and to use the input
api!!! Yeah!!!!