From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 8:59:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CD037B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13PoYG-000644-00; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:59:24 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA83844; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:59:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:59:23 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed/responsiveness of FreeBSD and X Message-ID: <20000818165923.E83399@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000815163951.B39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <399966DC.64D45106@mitre.org> <20000818163428.D83399@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <399D5BA3.FB883510@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <399D5BA3.FB883510@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:52:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:52:03AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: | No, AFAIK these programs cannot even be run while X is running. | Basically Linux here has some sort of low level direct-to-hardware so basically it seizes the console much like windows seizes the DOS console and maps graphics directly to the hardware? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message