Re: [BK console] console updates.
From: Aivils Stoss <hidden>
Date: 2002-11-04 09:34:36
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:40:05 -0800 (PST) James Simons wrote:
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:38PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:quoted
I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to
play
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with it.Why? I don't want to live another release with the old, crappy console, and you've been working on this during almost all of 2.4 now..Give my console diff a try. http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/console.diff.gz Its against 2.5.45. It has 3 bugs I know of. 1) Switch back to X messes up the screen.
Already fixed in the linuxconsole 2.4.X backport http://startx.times.lv/ Aivils Stoss
--- linus-2.5/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c Mon Nov 4 11:33:57 2002
+++ linus-2.5/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c.changed Mon Nov 4 11:36:45 2002@@ -1089,17 +1089,17 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, str if (!tmp) { tmp = vc_allocate(vc->vt_newvt); if (!tmp) { i = vc->vt_newvt; vc->vt_newvt = -1; return i; } } - + vc->vt_newvt = -1; /* * When we actually do the console switch, * make sure we are atomic with respect to * other console switches.. */ acquire_console_sem(); complete_change_console(tmp,
vc->display_fg->fg_console);
release_console_sem();