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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:53:02 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <20000112015302.B95357@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000112094131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20000111165918.F54150@florence.pavilion.net> <XFMail.000112094131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:41:31AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> The short answer is that its impossible.
> 
> The long answer is that you could possibly do it if the gfx drivers
> where in the kernel (because they're the only things which know how to
> kick the video card in the head to change back to text mode)
> 

So does XFree86 know about syscons?  How does it know to go to vty2
if I press ctrl-alt F2?  I assumed that it passed the alt F2 back to
syscons, and it made the switch.

Joe
-- 
Josef Karthauser	FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how
Technical Manager	deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org)
Pavilion Internet plc.  [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk]


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