Bug#696965: [PATCH] support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people
On 12/31/12 05:36 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Michal Suchanek, le Mon 31 Dec 2012 19:22:13 +0100, a écrit :
>> why is that patch needed?
>>
>> It is quite non-obvious why would dummy driver require a console under
>> any circumstances. It does not render anything anywhere so does not
>> use console for anything.
>
> The console *is* needed for keyboard input.
>
> Again, the use case is blind people who have use of possessing an actual
> screen, and thus don't have any, and thus have to use the dummy driver.
So it sounds like that should be handled by the input driver, not the
output driver.
People who want to use dummy output with real input should have input
devices configured - those who want an Xvfb like experience can use
the dummy video driver and either use the void input driver or configure
their servers to have no input drivers loaded.
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