Re: [PATCH] support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people

2012-12-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello,

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.

Thanks

Michal
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Re: [PATCH] support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people

2012-12-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
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.

Samuel
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Re: [PATCH] support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people

2012-12-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
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.

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 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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