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>>> sos@freebsd.org said:

 > 
 > Oh, well why not use X then for purposes that require 
 > high res/many colors?? everything else is reinventing the wheel.
 > Besides doing real time graphics in high res isnt going to work
 > anyways on 90% of the PC hardware out there, no matter what 
 > implementation we use.

Well, there is the slight matter of size with X and a process context
switch for a batch of graphic operations or a process context switch
per operation if you use Xsync mode --- Not my favorite idea of 
fast graphics.

The reason why I like the XFree86 approach is for the existing support
for low level graphic primitives such as line drawing , etc...

Now a minimal X installation does not take that much space so we could
follow that route for installs from CDs.

	Thats all folks , I peacefully return to my multimedia stuff :)

	Happy Hacking!
	Amancio