Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264153AbUFPW1p (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:27:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264260AbUFPW1p (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:27:45 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:49424 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264153AbUFPW1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:27:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:30:35 +0200 To: Karel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kulhav=FD?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AT Keyboard (was: Helge Hafting vs. make menuconfig help) Message-ID: <20040616223035.GA7932@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <20040615140206.A6153@beton.cybernet.src> <20040615141039.GF20632@lug-owl.de> <20040615142040.B6241@beton.cybernet.src> <20040615144127.GG20632@lug-owl.de> <20040615172129.F6843@beton.cybernet.src> <20040615173210.GM20632@lug-owl.de> <20040615174651.A6965@beton.cybernet.src> <20040615183700.GA13866@hh.idb.hist.no> <20040615195903.A7813@beton.cybernet.src> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040615195903.A7813@beton.cybernet.src> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1220 Lines: 33 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:59:03PM +0000, Karel Kulhav? wrote: > > 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? The console is the text interface you see when not running X (the graphical user interface). > I get a feeling that it's where kernel writes it's debug > messages but sometimes Yes, the console is also used for this. > else I get a feeling it's the text output of the > machine at all. > You can also have text output in an xterm, thats not the console. Or even on real terminals connected to serial ports. > And what are the ttys? And does the key go first into console and then tty, > or the other way? TTY = TeleTYpe interface. The machine may have quite a few different text interfaces, one of them is special and is the console. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/