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();
-
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