On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > Not really, what happens when the user presses alt-F1?
Well, if the console is switched to medium raw or raw mode, nothing happens. > A way to tell the kernel that events from a given input device should > not go to the console has been needed since the very first time an X > driver allowed keyboard events from /dev/input/event<n>, and that > still has not changed. And the ages old method that X has been using before the existence of the input layer still works fine, as far as I know. > We just want a more flexible approach then what we are already using[0]. I'm fine with that, I just wonder whether attacking it on the input layer side is the right way to do it: If you want to disable the console, tell the console. That way, we don't have to figure out which exact kernel input handlers are console and which are not. > I'll see about writing something up when I get back to my computers[1] > and have things set back up[2]. Enjoy whatever computerless period you're planning! -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs