Re: GGI and cli/sti in X

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
02 Apr 1998 00:50:00 +0200


lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de (Hans Lermen) wrote on 30.03.98 in <Pine.LNX.3.96.980330164020.1942F-100000@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>:

> On Mar 29, linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
>
> > What would happen with your userspace modesetting daemon when it meets up
> > with the likes of a svgalib game.. or dosemu..
> ^^^^^^
> DOSEMU _is_ using X and runs pretty fine on it,
> In addition, the current console graphics is _not_ using SVGA-lib but the
> card's own VBIOS (via vm86). ... and all runs fine in user space.

And all also nicely dies in user space, and renders the console unusable.
Happens to me every few days.

MfG Kai

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