On 12/31/12 05:36 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Michal Suchanek, le Mon 31 Dec 2012 19:22:13 +0100, a écrit : >> why is that patch needed? >> >> It is quite non-obvious why would dummy driver require a console under >> any circumstances. It does not render anything anywhere so does not >> use console for anything. > > The console *is* needed for keyboard input. > > Again, the use case is blind people who have use of possessing an actual > screen, and thus don't have any, and thus have to use the dummy driver.
So it sounds like that should be handled by the input driver, not the output driver. People who want to use dummy output with real input should have input devices configured - those who want an Xvfb like experience can use the dummy video driver and either use the void input driver or configure their servers to have no input drivers loaded. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e24007.4030...@oracle.com