Subject: Re: Multipul screens
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: michael smith <mike@smith.net.au>
List: port-hp300
Date: 06/01/1997 16:06:06
Jason Thorpe stands accused of saying:
>On Sat, 31 May 1997 07:45:30 -0600 
> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>
> > With some amount of effort and some basic assumptions, you could plug an
> > Apollo keyboard into a 4xx, and munge the X server so it can take input
> > from either and then just setup X correctly.
>
>...part of that "some amount of effort" is "finish rototilling the
>in-kernel keyboard support, and integrate Mike Smith's Domain keyboard
>driver into the New World Order".

Just a heads-up, while you're integrating the driver make sure to
add a keymap entry for ^], which I completely forgot.  It makes
using telnet on the console very difficult.

Also, and speaking of _major_ console gripes, is it possible to
have the ite and the framebuffer drivers run at a lower spl?  If
you desire an understanding of the current problem, try this :

 - Run a ppp link out of your box.  Start an incoming FTP transfer, and
   background it.
 - On the console, run
     netstat -I ppp0 -w 1
 - Watch the error counts.
 - Stop netstat, wait 10-15 seconds.
 - Start netstat again.  Look at the error counts; observe that while
   netstat (console output) has not been running, there have been
   no input errors.
 - Run netstat again from a machine connected via ethernet, note no
   errors.

It's also interesting that there are no console messages about the
overflows, although I think this is a 'feature' of the driver.

--
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