Re: attempting to open a VT from elsewhere and take raw keyboardinput

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jul 17 2007 01:51, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>
> I'm messing around with framebuffer graphics stuff and trying to write
> a keyboard driver similar to the one in X, which will allow you to
> start up the graphics system from any tty (not just a virtual
> console),

right, I can start X these days over SSH (either init5 or startx)

> find an available VT, switch to that VT,

X does that automatically ('regular' X, not considering Xdmcp or such)

> and then take input from the physically attached keyboard rather
> than necessarily

X does that too.



	Jan
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