Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:21:08 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Ian Collier wrote:
> OK, it's obvious what the answer is. [ :-) ]
>
> Collect together a minimal set of display device drivers out of the
> X server and put them into a kernel module. Then have the X server
> insmod the correct drivers for your graphics card. No one needs to
> bother Linus or write kernel patches.
>
> So you end up with a module that creates a /dev/Xgraphics device
> [using the gift of dev_fs (-: ] which does all your mode switches.
> The X server opens this device and instructs it to change modes,

Hey, this _is_ already present! Please point your editor at drivers/video/.

> do some acceleration, whatever. When the device is closed it resets
> the graphics mode. This even works if X got killed by an OOM error.

Change mode on close isn't implemented yet.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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