From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263422AbTJBShY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:37:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263444AbTJBShY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:37:24 -0400 Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com ([216.145.54.171]:37127 "EHLO mrout1.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263422AbTJBShX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:37:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7C7051.2000003@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:37:05 -0700 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? References: <3F7BE886.8070401@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <3F7BE886.8070401@aitel.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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