Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Collier <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:51:29 +0100 (BST) |
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OK, it's obvious what the answer is. [ :-) ]
Collect together a minimal set of display device drivers out of the X server and put them into a kernel module. Then have the X server insmod the correct drivers for your graphics card. No one needs to bother Linus or write kernel patches.
So you end up with a module that creates a /dev/Xgraphics device [using the gift of dev_fs (-: ] which does all your mode switches. The X server opens this device and instructs it to change modes, do some acceleration, whatever. When the device is closed it resets the graphics mode. This even works if X got killed by an OOM error.
imc
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