XDirectFB and Virtual Terminals

grooveman · Veteran Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217

Hi everyone!

I have gotten XDirectFB working with Fluxbox, and I gotta tell ya, it is pretty spiffy!

BUT

I do have a question for anyone who might have some insight on this: How do you change virtual terminals when XDirectFB is up? Ctrl+Alt+F# doesn't do it any more! Or is this simply not an option when running this XDirectFB? I have searched the forums up and down for this as well as google and the XDirectFB home site and I could find no mention of this phenomenon.

Interestingly enough, I have also noticed that my numlock, scrolllock and capslock leds on my keyboard do not work either when running XDirectFB. They keys still work, but the lights indicating they are activated do not.

It is also definitely slower than regular X, especially on startup. Will this improve if I buy a nicer graphics card?

Thanks!
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MathFreak · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:40 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure, but I don't believe you can switch virtual terminals from XDirectFB. As for speed, it's not so much a nicer card as much as a better supported card. The Matrox Gxxx series are really well supported and Xdirectfb runs great on mine. Nvidia cards, however, are just barely supported.

grooveman · Veteran Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217

Hmm...

I don't suppose you know how to switch between vt's? (Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller...?)

As far as the card goes, that figures. I have a geforce4 4600ti for my new system

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Oh well.. I guess there are other advantages to this card.

Thanks.
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MathFreak · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject:

Switching virtual terminals is still experimental and might not work correcty with directfb applications (such as xdirectfb). You might try editing the directfbrc file (either /etc/directfbrc or ~/.directfbrc) and put in the line "vt-switching".

grooveman · Veteran Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217

Hmm...

I tried that and I get no change. I get not complaints either when I start it up so I am not sure what is going on.

Is that a different key-combo for switching vt's?
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MathFreak · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:24 pm Post subject:

I'm not certain. I don't use xdirectfb myself, since I upgraded to a GeForce4 Ti4200. It might just be that it's not possible to switch virtual terminals with xdirectfb at all.

BarryJ · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

I dunno if anyone is still trying to do this, but it works for me now! Just use Alt+F1, etc... If you're using links then the vt you want to switch back to is 7 (just like if it were an X Server).