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Re: Bug#185450: missing virtual terminal ioctl's


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Bug#185450: missing virtual terminal ioctl's
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:04:28 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.3i

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:47:26AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote:
> 
> Currently I'm working on a XKB plugin for the console client. Some months ago 
> Marcus and I had a discussion about this. Marcus spoke about a repeater for 
> the 
> keyboard from which X can read input. I can design a protocol to speak with 
> the 
> keyboard via this driver. This protocol includes console switching, 
> controlling 
> LEDs, reading scancodes and keycodes, setting hardware bits like repeat and 
> locking, etc.
> 
> X should be addepted to use this, the console switching code is in the input 
> driver of X and it has access to the keyboard IIRC. 

fine! please keep us informed on the progress

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