Re: multihead patches

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

Hi Brad,

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 13:13, Brad Midgley wrote:
> i would like to get a set of patches such that you can use the same 
> xfree binary for either head. ideally, this same binary could be used by 
> people not doing multihead so xfree could maybe merge the patch. do you 
> think it could be based on your patch or should it be started from scratch?

I think you can base it on this patch, just adding some parameters to
xfree86 so it would disable vt handling code and avoid messing with some
pci stuff.

Note that even joining both patches it still a hack! It is much likely
to be other problems with some specific video cards/hardware.

> i have a couple of questions from looking at the second-head patch 
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/XFree86-4.1.0-2nd-0.92.patch
> 
> is there a way to avoid the pc-at keyboard hack code? why is it necessary?

Have you read the text? How do you suggest receiving scan codes from the
second keyboard only?


regards,

Miguel