> Hello folks, > > > could anybody please give me some more insight, how switching > from X to console (ctrl+alt+f*) actually works ? > > Who catches the keypress event and initiates the VT switch ? > The Xserver ? Could this be done in the kernel (eg. when Xserver > is hanging) ? The X server is in full control of it all. No the kernel can't do it, SAK might work (secure-attention key) using sysrq but it probably will just end up with a more confused system. Dave. > > > --mtx > > -- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > Free software and Linux embedded engineering > info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287 > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
