Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:59:03 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Karel_Kulhav=FD?= <clock@twibright.com>
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Subject: Re: AT Keyboard (was: Helge Hafting vs. make menuconfig help)
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> 4. From there, the key is propagated through tty and
>    console and ends up in your application.  This application
>    might be X, which passes the key onto some program using X.

I am insterested in the 4. itself.

What's the console? I get a feeling that it's where kernel writes it's debug
messages but sometimes else I get a feeling it's the text output of the
machine at all.

And what are the ttys? And does the key go first into console and then tty,
or the other way?

Cl<
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