Hello, Michael. On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 18:08:58 -0500, Michael Jones wrote:
[ .... ] > Without looking at the patch itself: > Have you considered something like kmscon as a userland alternative? To be honest, no. I wasn't really aware of it when I starting working on the Linux console. According to Wikipedia, the last release was in 2013, and development stopped altogether in 2015. The Gentoo package for it is masked. > I installed it on my laptop, and aside from not working with gpmd or > consolation for mouse support, it's a perfectly functional local tty. I suppose it's one of these programs that once working, pretty much carries on working for ever. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
