Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:46:44 -0800 | From | George <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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would it be possible to separate the video driver to a separate user level process, which X would talk to? ...
then X could be run as root and there would be only one process (user level) taking care of the graphics bit ... (this would be running as root but since it would be much smaller then X it would likely have less bugs)
probably would be too slow (would it?) ... I have never dealt with anything in graphix except doing simple VGA programming under dos ... if the interface to the "driver" would be "high-level" enough it should work ok shouldn't it? and you'd have one program doing the console stuff which would be a user process ... then dosemu, X, svga lib and libggi programs could all talk to only one driver, which could potentially work on other systems then linux, just like X does .... but would be far smaller then the whole X bit I imagine, so it should be less buggy too ... would it be possible to take the "drivers" from the Xfree, dump em into the userlevel driver ??? that way it doesn't have to be written from scratch ...
ok .... yes I'm talking too much ... I'll shut up now since I probably have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about here ...
George
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