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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:28:03 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000112122803.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000112015302.B95357@florence.pavilion.net>

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On 12-Jan-00 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > 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.

XFree has to know about syscons etc.. because of the previous statement
I made stating on XFree knows how to futz with the video card when its
in graphics mode (non VESA).

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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