Hi, colortext needs to access the video buffer to poke the characters. oskit-mach doesn't provide the "kd" device it uses for that, but hey, we don't want that beast back of course. But there is this special_mem_device, and it seems this can be easily used instead. Or, I guess it could just use the mem device with an absolute offset.
The other problem is opening the keyboard in raw mode. It seems to be simple enough to cook this up, the only thing that seems to be needed is to set the DC_RAW console flag, I think. I don't think much more than this will be needed to get X working again and have a sensible console using 'colortext' (beside finishing colortext of course!). If we can use the mem device, no change to oskit-mach is required for that part, but setting the raw mode requires oskit-mach support. Is it acceptable to put a hack in to set it in raw mode (without advertising it as the final interface)? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
