Re: Console switching ioctls

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Samuel, > Marco Gerards, le Thu 25 Aug 2005 17:01:01 +0200, a écrit : >> There are several ioctls related for console switching. The most >> important one is VT_ACTIVATE which is easy to implement. > > How is it easy to implement? You need to know w

Re: Console switching ioctls

2005-08-25 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > So I am considering a library that is capable of the same things as > the ioctls. Would that be a wise choice or is there any way to > overcome the problems I described? My choice would be a library that > should be used for co

Console switching ioctls

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, To be able to switch from X (and svgalib, etc) to the console and back we need support for some ioctls. I wonder if we want to have such ioctls or do we want a special library (libvt or so). There are several ioctls related for console switching. The most important one is VT_ACTIVATE which