Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Console patch... | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:33:54 +0100 | From | Marko Macek <> |
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Hi!
>> www page is at http://ixtas.fer.uni-lj.si/~markom/fte Only the OS/2 version is there. I gave Linux versions (console+x11) to a few of my friends and they probably distributet it further.
>> It probably won't work on anything other than the console after looking= The console version only works on console :) There is an X11 version though.
>> responsive if they are re-written to use the features in the patch. >> The patch itself will almost patch cleanly into version 1.3.77 even=20 >> though it's actually meant for 1.2 I think. >This patch seems pretty darn useless to me; it is replicating >functionality from the standard driver as well as /dev/vcsa with >little or no additional functionality. This stuff can be done without >kernel bloat pretty easily.
I made the patch for kernel 1.1.54 and haven't really changed it until recently. It now uses /dev/vcsa.
>There might be something to be said for >having a BIOS style keyboard mode, though, if only to make it easier >for people to port stuff from DOS, any maybe to help out the DOSemu >guys.
The patch does two things with keyboard by adding a new mode: - passes more information to user level processs (shift flags, ...) - leaves the text console switching in control of the kernel, making things more reliable.
It would be nice to have a standard mode that does two things: - kernel VC switching (as in cooked mode). - returns keycode (and keysym?) and shift state flags when read.
One could track shift state changes in a program, but they would get out of sync (like they do now).
Perhaps also a VC_VRAW and VC_VMEDIUMRAW modes would be useful.
Comments?
Mark
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