Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Ian Collier (imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:34:02 +0100 (BST)

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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:21:08 +0200 (CEST), you said:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Ian Collier wrote:
> > 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/.

Not for anywhere near all the devices supported by X though, I bet.

> > 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.

Well that _was_ the whole point of this thread... :-)

imc

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