xf86-video-dummy compared to xf86-video-dummy-with-vt?

[John T Davis]

Hello,

Good afternoon! Thanks for your message. That clears it up rather nicely.

Would you mind if I reposted this explanation on the Manjaro Linux forum? We were scratching our heads over there trying to figure out what it did. Apparently no one on the forum uses it.

Thanks again.

							Sincerely,
								John T Davis

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> On Jul 7, 2020, at 3:42 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> John T Davis, le lun. 06 juil. 2020 23:12:52 -0500, a ecrit:
>> How does this version of the driver differ from the xf86-video-dummy (that is,
>> without the virtual terminal)? What exactly is different for the end user?
> 
> The difference is that the user can actually type on the PC keyboard
> and things work as expected. For instance, control-C doesn't kill the X
> server.
> 
> Put another way, with this patch the X server behaves very much like a
> normal X server, except that it doesn't display anything.
> 
>> Would switching to the with-vt driver give me access to the TTY consoles over
>> SSH?
> 
> No. It really is not the purpose.
> 
> Samuel

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