Bug#760916: brltty interferes with getty autostart

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:56:42 -0500 Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2015/01/22 at 00:46 +0100]
> 
> >Reading is fine, since it's done through /dev/vcsa, which doesn't count
> >in VT_GETSTATE.
> 
> Not exactly. The tty device still needs to be opened in order to do things like 
> fetch the Unicode map.
> 
> It's possible, of course, that things like the Unicode map, the screen font 
> map, the character translation table, etc are common to all vts, in which case 
> they could be fetched from tty1. I'm not familiar enough with the internals to 
> know for sure.
> 
> I noticed a comment in the source for systemd-logind stating that tty1 is 
> special, so using it would seem to be okay. We still need to be sure that all 
> of what we need for mapping the font positions returned by the vcs devices back 
> to the original characters is common to all ttys so that fetching them from 
> tty1 would be valid for other ttys.

Hi Samuel, hi Dave,

could you give me an update on this issue? Is this still an issue?

Regards,
Michael
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