From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 8 15:18:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21484 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21415 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA24799 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 04:56:11 -0800 Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA06722; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 07:53:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 07:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , Wilson MacGyver Subject: Re: direct access to video card In-Reply-To: <199603080004.BAA18086@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The thing i've kicked around from time to time is building the X server as a library. I.e. i want to mess with the card directly, I realize that there's a lot of value in the x server as regards hardware control, but i want direct access with no IPC in the middle. If i had the x server as libxserver.a then i could hijack the server and make it do something else. You would mainly want to toss the X IPC protocol stuff. ron Ron Minnich |" Microsoft Word: It does so little and it does rminnich@sarnoff.com | it so slowly" -- Maya Gokhale (609)-734-3120 | ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html