Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:55:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Andreas Kostyrka <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I don't need KGI. I'm running X on everything from $5 garage sale Trident > > ISA cards to 8MB #9 PCI cards and in th 4+ years that I've been running > > it on Linux, it's never crashed. Not once. > > I second that. The one thing which can happen is the X server flipping out > due to bad configuration, but the machine can still be rebooted with the > magic-threesome or through a rlogin session. Not a crash, more like a > program malfunction. Once configured I wonder what you have to do to make > X _crash_? With the new configuration utilities, these things happen > _very_ rarely. Nope. I've reproducable SYSTEM crashes when I zap (C-M-BackSpace) out of XF86_S3V 3.3.1 -> The system is dead, no rebooting via the network. Another thing that I've with XF86_S3, but this happens only one discless 486 (and not on it's twin, that *FUNNY*), that switching to textmode leaves a messed up text console. > > > Please don't misunderstand me. I have no feelings about KGI one way or > > the other. But I do know that /I/ don't need it. And I suspect that > > the vast majority of Linux users feel the same way. I need it. suid root binaries can crash the system. So either (Just be disabling the IRQ. Another candidate for this is /sbin/clock, that supposedly does this too. This bites the SMP folk, and as a reaction the RealTimeClock was added as a kernel driver. So why can't this be done too for graphics?) > Exactly. Most X users run a window manager, a few applications (xjed, > netscape, xterm, gimp etc.) and never do anything else with X. What would > these people need GGI for? Nothing. - stability. - more hardware support (one driver for ALL graphics systems, be it console, X11, etc.), so it makes writing drivers more easily. - fullscreen mode for this application that benefit it. - flexibility. - speed. The GGI ppl have really thought long about intergrating accelerated cards in a safe system.
Andreas
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