Re: two consoles

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

> > Is it possible to get two consoles running on 2.5.65+?
> > 
> > 
> > I have this hardware:
> > AGP Radeon
> > PCI Rage128
> > USB mouse
> > PS2 mouse
> > USB keyboard
> > PS2 keyboard
> > 
> > If I can't get two consoles, how can I separate the
> > USB mouse/keyboard from controlling the boot console?
> > 
>  short answer "NO"
> you can try to write directly to James Simmons
> (the main developer of the linuxconsole project)
> if you do so please CC the list too.
> He mentioned several times on lkml that independent consoles won't go in 2.6
> and is probably a 2.7 thing, but never posted firm statement to the project
> mailing list.

Correct. It will not go in until 2.7.X. Sorry I have been away since fbdev 
developement is taking all my time. Now it is possible to write programs 
that use /dev/fbX and /dev/input/eventX and you can have multi-desktop 
programmings as long as you ignore the console system. 

> there was also a working patch against 2.5.59, but again without framebuffer
> support ( see the download page )
> the url is http://startx.times.lv

The console stuff against 2.5.59 is very incomplete. Once the framebuffer 
stuff is complete I plan to ramp up console developmente again.