Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: X and VT-switching bug? | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:55:55 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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teunis wrote: > FWIW x86 hardware is broken by design (anything capable of VGA is broken. > As is CGA, EGA, hercules-monochrome, ...). x86 graphics hardware is _NOT_ > designed for secure and/or multiuser environments. > > I don't know how things are on other platforms though - other than > apparently neither Sun nor SGI have this problem.
You mean you've been changing virtual consoles as fast as you can on a SUN and an SGI? Nah.... Didn't think you tried that.
Sun and SGI have a frame buffer that is graphics mode only, and doesn't need changing from VC to VC.
I think that things are "implementation issue": If an Xserver would:
- on switch away, only tell the kernel that the switch is done after everything is actually done. Discard keystrokes recieved after the switchaway was initiated.
- on switch-to-X, first tell the kernel (keyboard->raw mode) and process keystrokes once your're fully switched.
then, everything would be just fine.....
Regards,
Roger.
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