Re: Independ multiple users on G550

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

>PS.4
>the last commit was 14 Nov, so Aivils's tarball contains the same code as
>cvs
>
>Aivils,
>should ruby-260t9-20031115 really work OK without this patches ?

I send bunch of patches to You because i gropingly move in the dark.
ruby-260t9-20031115 really works because include all vt.c patches!

>PS.5
>the remaining issues
>/* most likely hardware limitations involved
> * and XFree "bugs" too
> */
>
>1.)  X->VT->X on head1 (vt7)
>X head1 is displayed on both heads, VT switch on head2 fixes it
>
>2.) the mentioned XFree hack should be integrated smarter,
>currently you need additional binary for each additional fbcon

fbcon should be cleaned at first.

>3.) probably unsolvable/ hardware
>the need to run swapped from matroxset tarball to
>separate the displays
>
>4.) related to 3
>after swapped, both heads are blank until a VT switch,
>
>and on head1 there is a lot of garbage until login + logout
>actually the garbage is on all vc's except the first one (head 1)
>but on all vc's usable is only 4/6 of the hight of the screen
>the top 1/6 is ocupied by the logo, the bottom 1/6 by nothing
>on vc1 and by garbage on vc2-vc6.
>Everything becomes normal after a login + logout , but until logout
>only graphics(e.g. ncurses menuconfig)  paint to the entire screen,
>a ls, ps, whatever will use only the middle 4/6 of the screen hight

I read some times code , but do not detect bug :(
I have /dev/vc/1 with same issues.

>there is no such problem with head2
>/* which misses a blinking cursor, cursor is always on :-)  */

Ok. Next snapshot contains vt_struct with cursor timer.

Aivils Stoss