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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