[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread Aaron Zang
Hi, After you reset the options/hotkeys=true, did you refresh/restart vtdaemon? Thanks, Aaron On 11/17/08 04:43, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Hi, > >I am running SXCE Build 101 on several computers , one laptop and one > shuttle barebone. >When I login as root on a text console ALT-L + F

[vconsole-discuss] New ioctl to route IO between the two streams of one USB keyboard

2008-11-17 Thread Aaron Zang
Ed, Very interesting idea! I would certainly keep it in mind. When thinking about the detailed implementation, it may involve making keyboard drivers console aware. Or at least we need to add interfaces between several kernel drivers -- wc, conskbd, hid. Our console driver -- wc knows who is associ

[vconsole-discuss] New ioctl to route IO between the two streams of one USB keyboard

2008-11-17 Thread Aaron Zang
On 11/17/08 12:46, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > yeah, it just an idea, and you know me, i'm a dreamer... ;) i keep > thinking that if more of this was handled by the kernel the when the X > server hangs we could still switch terminals to debug it. course this > would also depend on the kernel bein

[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Here is the AppTrace of vtdaemon : 2092:-> vtdaemon -> libc.so.1:int atexit(int (*)() = 0xfefd2024) 2092:<- vtdaemon -> libc.so.1:atexit() 2092:-> vtdaemon -> libc.so.1:int atexit(int (*)() = 0x8053c88) 2092:<- vtdaemon -> libc.so.1:atexit() 2092:-> vtdaemon -> libc.so.1:void __fp

[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread Aaron Zang
On 11/17/08 15:53, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Here is a truss trace of what vtdaemon does when ALT-L + F2 is > pressed. > each time a key is pressed a new Door Return event happens but VTdaemon > does not "do" anything. > > > > 505:psargs: /usr/lib/vtdaemon -k -c 16 vtdaemo

[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Aaron wrote: vtdaemon is invoked with option "k" which means it must not respond to hotkeys. So please please refresh && restart vtdaemon. I guess Fast-boot does some trick not to refresh SMF repository so that it is "fast". --- No something else is wrong . Even wh

[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread Lars Tunkrans
When I comment out the two lines in /lib/svc/method/vtdaemon that manipulates the "-k" argument SMF starts vtdeamon without the -k argument. //Lars -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[vconsole-discuss] Need a VT console HOW to:

2008-11-17 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Lars Tunkrans on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:33:09AM -0800: > SO my conclusion is that in BUILD 101 there is a BUG in SMF somewhere > that prevents the /lib/svc/method/vtdaemon script from > working properly. Actually this is by design. Since reboots can happen for reasons other than becau