Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Riny Qian wrote: > >> Virtual console switch between Xserver and consoles needs the graphics >> support (enter/exit virtual console state) from Xserver. >> >> Currently Xsun on SPARC does not support this functionality, > > > If it's just adding the same ioctl's that we call on x86, then Xsun will > support it just as soon as you tell us to. Removing the #ifdef i386 > around those is trivial. >
It seems not simple, see LSARC/1996/291 x86 X Server VT Support, and we need similar feature on SPARC, which involves both the core server and each of the DDX modules. > Long term we still want to move to Xorg on SPARC, and will also be happy > to remove the #ifdef i386 from those ioctl's too. I hope it would not take a long time. > > If the X server needs to change in any way to make virtual consoles work > on either SPARC or x86, just ask. I can't guarantee we'll do anything > that involves months of work, but we are very interested in discussing > anything required and anything as simple as calling ioctls or similar > easy changes should be no problem at all. We'll do, and thanks in advance :-) BTW, I've made such easy changes to Xorg to enable the switch between Xorg and consoles. I'll post the binaries onto the project page for early try after some further testing. Riny
