home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Paul Koning writes:
- > I'm puzzled. XWindows is a type of windowing system, of which XFree86
- > is an instance. So to say that XWindows doesn't have VT switching
- > support seems odd. Did you mean "The XFree86 implementation of
- > XWindows has VT switching support, but the Fubar42 version of XWindows
- > does not" ?
-
- XFree86 is {X server + XFree code} - it is a specific hardware `type' in that
- it has it's own ddx backend for X. The X server is made up of various
- modules, one of them is ddx - the `device dependent' end. XFree86 is one
- such backend that happens to support VT switching. XNest is another DDX,
- as is the vfb, virtual frame buffer. To give you more of an idea, the
- standard X distribution comes with the following 'device drivers'
- (minus the armlinux entry of course):
-
- hw:
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 May 24 1997 armlinux/
- drwxr-xr-x 3 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 dec/
- drwxr-xr-x 5 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 hp/
- drwxr-xr-x 6 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 ibm/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 macII/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 omron/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 4 1995 sun/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 sunAmoeba/
- drwxr-xr-x 3 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 svga/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 5 1995 vfb/
- drwx------ 11 src src 1024 Apr 1 1995 xfree86/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 src src 1024 Apr 21 1994 xnest/
-
- Thus, if you have an Xserver built with, say, the macII ddx, then you will
- not get VT switching.
- _____
- |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+-
- | | Russell King rmk@ecs.soton.ac.uk --- ---
- | | | | http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/~rmk/home.html / / |
- | +-+-+ --- -+-
- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\
- / | | | --- |
- +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
-
- unsubscribe: body of `unsubscribe linux-arm' to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
-
-