<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good afternoon! Thanks for your message. That clears it up rather nicely.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" class=""> Sincerely,<br class=""> John T Davis<br class=""><br class="">-- -- --<br class=""><b class="">John T Davis</b><br class=""><b class=""><i class="">Barta, Jones & Foley, P.C.</i></b><br class="">Patent Attorney and Counselor at Law<br class=""><b class="">State Bar of Texas License No.:</b> 24079797 || <b class="">USPTO Registration No.:</b> 72,813<br class=""><b class="">Admitted: </b>US District Court (Eastern District of Texas); US Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit)<br class=""><b class="">Member: National Association of Patent Practitioners; </b>College of the State Bar of Texas<br class=""><b class="">E:</b> <a href="mailto:johnt@davisiplaw.net" class="">johnt@davisiplaw.net</a> | <b class="">T:</b> (469) 269-5295<br class=""><i class="">Fax number available on request</i><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.</i><br class=""> - Albert Einstein<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE</b><br class=""><i class="">This electronic mail transmission (including any attachments) is confidential, may be privileged and should be read or retained only by the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error, or are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.</i><br class=""><span style="font-size:13px;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size:13px;" class=""><b class="">MPEP Section 502.03 Statement.</b></span><br class=""><i class="">Per MPEP ยง 502.03: Recognizing that Internet communications are not secure, I hereby authorize the USPTO to communicate with me concerning any subject matter of this application by electronic mail. I understand that a copy of these communications will be made of record in the application file.</i><br class=""></span><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 7, 2020, at 3:42 PM, Samuel Thibault <<a href="mailto:samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org" class="">samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">John T Davis, le lun. 06 juil. 2020 23:12:52 -0500, a ecrit:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">How does this version of the driver differ from the xf86-video-dummy (that is,<br class="">without the virtual terminal)? What exactly is different for the end user?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The difference is that the user can actually type on the PC keyboard<br class="">and things work as expected. For instance, control-C doesn't kill the X<br class="">server.<br class=""><br class="">Put another way, with this patch the X server behaves very much like a<br class="">normal X server, except that it doesn't display anything.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Would switching to the with-vt driver give me access to the TTY consoles over<br class="">SSH?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">No. It really is not the purpose.<br class=""><br class="">Samuel<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>