Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:28:18 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: direct access to video card Message-ID: <199603090028.QAA00318@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 07:53:26 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.960308075044.6704C-100000@terra>
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You can build a server and do whatever you want with it and have a very nice library 8) Once again folks, hackers is not the appropiate forum for some of this discussions , you shall post to either the freebsd-multimedia or the xfree86 mailing list. Amancio >>> "Ron G. Minnich" said: > 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 > > >
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