Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:24:09 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: GGI and cli/sti in X |
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linker@nightshade.ml.org writes: > > Sorry Linus, I see a flaw here.. and I'm sure most other people do too.. > > X is not the only graphical program for Linux. Hopefully, it never will > be.. Right now I can setup a nice Linux boot disk with a nice SVGAlib > program. I could never put X on a disk or two. X also uses lots of memory. > > Therefor, it would be stupid to force all programers who want graphical > programming to use X.. It wouldn't be the Linux way (TM). > > What would happen with your userspace modesetting daemon when it meets up > with the likes of a svgalib game.. or dosemu..
The X daemon is part of the X distribution. Part of the svgalib distribution has it's own daemon. Or, you write a single daemon and both X and svgalib make calls to it.
Is there really any problem writing a standard daemon for Linux which must be used by any process wanting to fiddle with graphics modes? Sure, it's a change to the interface people are used to, but, hey, so would KGI be!
Regards,
Richard....
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