Keyboard mapping

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:14:05PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/22/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 May 2005 17:29, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > My EGL driver also ignores the kernel VC mechanism. There is only one
> > > VC in Linux which makes it incompatible with multiuser. In the future
> > > something can be implemented that looks just like VCs but follows the
> > > rules to make it compatible with Xgl.
> > 
> > You do not necessarily need a VC to run an X server.  You just need a
> > framebuffer.  Look at the ruby patches, or bug #2216 (which I am admittedly
> > tardy on delivering).
> 
> I know that VCs are not required to run the X server. The problem
> comes from people who run consoles in some sessions and the X server
> in another. On VT swap nasty things happen. Number one, the current X
> server disables all VGA devices in the system. Disabling all VGA
> devices is bad for the other users since they are using them and they
> haven't swapped VTs.

Any design solution based around being able to provide multiple X
servers and multiple console sessions at the same time that
doesn't involve throwing away the entire VT layer and starting from
scratch is possibly slightly overengineered.
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