Re: problem with XFree86 keyboard

[Aivils S. <Aiv...@un...>]

>I have since dumped redhat and switched to debian.
>The backstreet ruby kernel that I compiled worked, and
>after some struggle, I was able to get the nvidia
>kernel module to compile and load and function with
>XFree86, and I can now run 2 copies of XFree86
>simultaneously displayed.
>
>The problem that I have is that I have 1 PS/2 keyboard
>and 1 PS/2 mouse, I want the first copy of XFree86 to
>use them, and the second copy of XFree86 to run
>without a keyboard or mouse.
>
>But, whichever is the second XFree86 instance(which is
>running on vt08) to start, blocks the keyboard and
>mouse so that it only works on that XFree86, I can't
>swich to any other vt. This even happens when I
>disable the mouse & keyboard drivers for the second
>XFree86 configuration file by changing the driver to
>"void".

On dummy console without keyboard xf86 should run as
ordinarily. Trouble, under 2.4.21 VGA has /dev/tty0-7,
but under 2.4.22 VGA has /dev/tty1-16. Please check
out dmesg lines Console:

dmesg | grep Console

I plan eliminate old style code , where each VT has 8 VCs.

Aivils Stoss