Re: No patches any more - fake tty driver

[Helge H. <hel...@ai...>]

Aivils Stoss wrote:

>Hi , All!
>
>Don't like patched kernel. Ok try out vanilla!
>
>	Main goal of this fake TTY driver is multi seat Linux box creation
>without any patch under Debian stable or Mandriva 2005 LE , which distros
>contains -isolateDevice patch of X.
>
>	Recent Linux kernel does not force us use evdev or tty layer. Even sytem
>operator can load new input handler. Actualy i write faketty kernel module,
>which create device file for each keyboard. That device file emulate TTY 
>layer.
>  
>
Interesting.  Do this have an advantage compared to using
evdev, which is supported in ubuntu's x.org? (this x.org
also works on debian testing, making multiseat X possible
with a standard kernel.  But of course only one user
gets a vga console.


>Keypress events are translated to standard TTY layer keycodes. These keycodes
>can use X for input.
>  
>
Is it possible to run a getty taking input from such a faketty, and
also redirecting the output of that getty to some process who
renders it on a framebuffer device?  That'd allow a terminal
to appear when X dies for some reason. Even on the second screen. . .

Helge Hafting