From: Terence Soh <gopher@singnet.com.sg>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: printk on framebuffer console
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:32:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447D7EE3.1090600@singnet.com.sg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447D79E8.3090102@gmail.com>
> The simplest solution is to write a utility that opens /dev/tty0
> for example, then do an ioctl,
>
> ioctl(fd, KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS);
>
> where fd is the file descriptor of /dev/tty0 for instance.
>
> To get back your console, do this:
>
> ioctl(fd, KDSETMODE, KD_TEXT);
Tony,
Thanks for your help!
Terence
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-31 11:33 UTC|newest]
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2006-05-30 12:17 ` [directfb-dev] printk on framebuffer console Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-31 0:45 ` Terence Soh
2006-05-31 0:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-31 1:47 ` Terence Soh
2006-05-31 4:16 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-31 8:17 ` Terence Soh
2006-05-31 11:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-05-31 11:32 ` Terence Soh [this message]
2006-05-31 14:45 ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2006-05-31 9:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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