Hi, AS you might know, I am working on a repeater option for the Hurd console. This feature is required to run XFree while using the console client.
This version of the patch uses libnetfs to create a directory in which nodes like kbd and mouse can be found. In the future I will write support for an extra node which exports an interface for console switching, which is required for XFree. There is also a patch included for libcons because this patch adds mouse support. That means you can use the mouse in some curses applications. Nothing fancy like copy-paste support yet. Here is an example how I use the console client with this patch applied: console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=kbd -d pc_mouse --repeat=mouse -c /dev/cons /dev/vcs If you have used one of my previous patches, you can see the --repeat option has changed. Now you only have to set up the name of the node, instead of a path. The console client has a new option, -c (long: --consnode) which can be used to set the translator. When using this example, you will get the following nodes after starting the console client: /dev/cons/kbd /dev/cons/mouse XFree can not find these nodes before you create a symlink to these nodes. For example: ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse After doing that and starting the console client like I showed earlier you can start XFree. You can find the two patches I mentioned here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mgerards/console_repeater.diff http://www.xs4all.nl/~mgerards/libcons_repeater.diff Please understand these patches are not fully finished yet. But I would appreciate any form of feedback, especially bug reports, comments on how it works (even things like `--repeat' should be `--foo') and comments on the code. Before these patches will work you will need to apply two patches for libnetfs. I sent in one patch a few days ago. I will send in the other patch tomorrow. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
