From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>, "Michael Stone" <michael@laptop.org>, devel@lists.laptop.org, "Ivan Krstić" <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>, kbd <kbd@lists.altlinux.org> Subject: Re: [kbd] autologin and Console font (Was: root password) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:49:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47865AB6.5010708@codewiz.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <787b0d920801031021o487b50d7h92f78fb6868247ff@mail.gmail.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2118 bytes --] (cc kbd, alexey, andries) Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 4:06 AM, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> wrote: >> Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> I quite like this "Press ESC twice for shell" solution. Reminds >> of the FidoNet era, if you're old enough to know what I'm >> talking about. > > Merely switching to the console should do the job. > Linux provides an ioctl, VT_WAITACTIVE, to let a > program wait for a tty to become activated. > > With the SAK solution, child death will notify the > parent process. The parent can then start getty. For now, we added an option to mingetty to wait for enter before proceeding to the autologin. And I did the same for agetty on ttyS0. These changes landed in joyride yesterday. Check it out and let me know if you like it. If you write a minimal "autogetty", I'd be willing to take it for the additional memory saving. But please, also do the packaging and fedora review process. > I have about 2000 glyphs, but Linux currently can't handle > more than 256 (or 512 w/o bright backgrounds) because the > internal representation is still tied to VGA. > > I thus trim my font to the regular PC character set. If the > kernel were fixed though, you could have 2000 glyphs. > > The 256-glyph file is attached. Looks nice! I'm soon going to branch the kbd package in OLPC-2 to add a couple of console keyboard maps that Walter made. We could use this opportunity to add your font. Please, also send me the full font, and let me know under what license the original glyphs were. I just got in contact with the Fedora and top-level kbd maintainers (reading us on cc) to push our changes back upstream. Is it ok if I contribute your font upstream? > The project has failed if it doesn't create new UNIX die hards. > These will be the people who drive the future economy. > The non-nerd kids are getting toys. We can expect a (small) percentage of the kids to become very good hackers. Didn't we all learn this very same way? :-) -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ [-- Attachment #2: 15x30pc.psf.gz --] [-- Type: application/x-gzip, Size: 3928 bytes --]
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