Re: Can't X be elemenated?

[Erik Steffl]

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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