X has been known to do it - when its catching signals to clean up nicely
on a real X problem (eg out of memory)
> > Your daemon hanging around for a kill case doesnt work because there is
> > a fundamental race between telling the card and the daemon about a state
> > change in the video programming.
>
> Umm?? There is no race, because the _only_ thing that changes the video
> mode is the deamon. NOTHING else. So when the deamon decides to change
> modes, it can do so - and doesn't ask anything for permission.
Ok right. Now I see your model with that bit. The X server "traditional
sense" sends a message to the "not X server" to do the mode shift. And
the notXserver piece is the is the small module thats not the user
and has to be correct.
Alan
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