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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Console Driver Message-ID: <1993Jun17.225042.17940@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation References: <1v9nrdINN412@gap.caltech.edu> <2380@hcshh.hcs.de> <DERAADT.93Jun12232325@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Jun17.153500.28625@gmd.de> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 22:50:39 +0000 Lines: 22 In article <1993Jun17.153500.28625@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > >|> 2. codrv-like X code. > >Depends on the interpretation what the codrv-like X interface really is. >There will be seperated /dev/kbd and /dev/vga like in codrv, but it is >not yet fixed whether to adopt the special codrv way of interaction. >We are also discussing the SVR4 vty style here. The XFree86 people on the list >could live with any solution, but there is preference to allow switchable >xservers in a vty, which sounds interesting and could be done with the SVR4 I'd really like to see this. It's something I'm really looking forward to :-) If not switchable xservers then at least the ability to have an xserver on one vty and other plain vty's. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk