Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:37:05 -0700 | From | Erik Steffl <> | Subject | Re: Can't X be elemenated? |
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Helge Hafting wrote: > kartikey bhatt wrote: > >> hey everyone who have joined this thread, my fundamental question have >> got >> out of scope. I mean to say >> >> 1. Kernel level support for graphics device drivers. >> 2. On top of that, one can develop complete lightweight GUI. >> 3. Maybe kernel can provide support for event handling. >> >> and I still stick to my opinion that graphics card is a computer resource >> that needs to be managed by OS rather than 3rd party developers. > > > The card is managed by the os - X has to ask the kernel nicely to get it. > (Try starting another X server inside an xterm and see how > that is refused.)
that has nothing to do with kernel. If you are running display 0 and start another X (without specifying display, it default to 0) it doesn't work since there cannot be two servers on same machine both being 0. You can start another X server with different number (e.g. startx -- :1 or whatever number is not used yet).
erik
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