From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 8 16:29:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA27426 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27408 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA00318; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:28:18 -0800 Message-Id: <199603090028.QAA00318@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: "Ron G. Minnich" cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: direct access to video card In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 07:53:26 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:28:18 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 > > >