Re: GGI and cli/sti in X

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 06:07:31 -0400


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > No, I'm not very impressed with people who think they have to
> > rewrite the whole world in order to fix a few small problems.

Torgeir Veimo <torgeir.veimo@vertech.no> wrote:
> Well, the issue of direct OpenGL rendering which was discussed about
> one or two months ago is not solveable inside XFree86. The issue is
> graphics context switching during task switching. It is semirelated to
> VC switching. This was the reason I startet on a GGI driver for cards
> that can do this in the first place.

Of course one option is to extend X.

And, since The Open Group seems intent on making X11R6.4 non-free software,
it's probably a good time to start ignoring the official process for X
extensions.

[followups to where?]

-- 
Raul

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