Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: [BK console] console updates. | From | Aivils Stoss <> | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:40:39 +0200 |
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Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:40:05 -0800 (PST) James Simons wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:38PM -0800, James Simmons wrote: >> > I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to play >> > 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(); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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