> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:07 AM > To: McDonald, Michael-p7438c > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: XGetImage returns junk with Xorg/dummy_drv/VTs > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:19 -0700, McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: > > Why would it do that? X apps don't know anything about VT > switching, > > nor should they. > > Because when you don't have the VT, you don't have the > hardware, so you > can't submit commands to it.
But that's not true in the general case. If I don't have vtSema, all it should mean is I'm not the current virtual terminal. I may have multiple graphics cards, each exclusively owned by a separate X server. So I believe that the meaning of vtSema got overloaded. Yes, I know that for most people, one system means one card and one VT. It's just not the case for what I need. And I'd think with PCs capable of supporting multiple graphic cards, more and more people would want to be able to run multiple X servers. > There was some debate about this way way back in like xfree86 > 4.0 or so. > I don't remember what the motivation was for what we've got now, but > it's what we do, so... Yup, kind of figured it was from the Xfree86 days. Guess I'll have to figure out how to build an X server without any VT support. Oh fun! Mike McDonald _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
