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SubjectRe: Questions from a kernel hacker wannabe
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:55:10PM -0700, Zack Weinberg scripsit:
> mullein wrote:
> > The consoles are instances of the getty program (mingetty is the version
> > used in rh 5.2 and suse 6.1) called from /etc/inittab. it shows up in ps
> > ax as /sbin/mingetty ttyX. I don't know how it traps alt+fX, but mingetty
> > source would probably be illuminating as to how userland processes can.
>
> Unless X is involved, console switching happens entirely within the
> kernel. See drivers/char/vt.c, include/linux/vt.h. Mingetty (and
> agetty, and util-linux getty) don't do anything.

So that means it's likely a kernel code difficulty if an frame buffer
console on an i386 (well, K6) wraps the end of a long line back on
to the beginning of the same line, rather than providing a next line?

(atyfb, from the 2.2.12pre8 release most recently, but it's been doing
this since I started using frame buffer consoles. Everything else
seems to work fine, although getting atyfb to go to 800x600 resolution
by passing boot time paramaters was frustrating enough that I tweaked
the compiled in defaults instead.)

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