nanogui: patch: make kbd_tty aware of graphics mode
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] patch: make kbd_tty aware of graphics mode
From:
Josh Malone ####@####.####
Date:
11 Jul 2005 14:31:42 +0100
Message-Id: <42D274BA.3050104@applieddata.net>
Jordan Crouse wrote:
> Greg Haerr wrote:
>
>> Thanks - did you find that setting HAVETEXTMODE and/or
>> VTSWITCH either way didn't solve the problem? These ioctls I think
>> are coded in scr_fb.c already.
>
>
> They are, and I think this functionality belongs in the framebuffer
> driver rather then the keyboard driver, since this is basically a
> framebuffer function (technically its not, but switching the VT from
> text to graphics sounds like a visual function rather then an input
> function, at least to me). In fact, I think we should probably make the
> mode switch the default rather then the exception, especially for Linux.
>
> Jordan
>
Are you saying there's an other/better way to change to graphics mode
that's already in the code? (i.e., I'm just not turning it on or
flipping some config?)
Is this a compile option/define?
-Josh
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