Re: How about running X on top of something else?

   You can write an XFree86 driver within the current driver model
that is built on top of something else like GGI.  Nobody has done
it.  I even gave a personal invitation to do this to the GGI folks 
years ago and they declined.


			Mark.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Christoph Egger wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> In the beginning of Linux, graphics meant either X or svgalib. If you 
> use both at the same
> time, you can easily crash the graphics card and make the system unuseable.
> 
> This fact was the start, when GGI (http://www.ggi-project.org/) was 
> brought up.
> But it was discarded by the linux kernel developers in a big flamewar in 
> 1997/1998.
> That caused the project to loose many users and developers and it was 
> believed to die.
> 
> (Ironically, fbdev is getting more and more into the shape of KGI in 
> recent development
> linux kernels... - What has changed the kernel developer's mind?)
> 
> Development slowed dramatically down, but NEVER really died.
> Recently, there were new releases.
> (Announcement: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261778)
> 
> The kernel part - KGI (http://www.kgi-project.org/) has been redesigned and
> rewritten from scratch in the meantime. Many things you might believe to 
> know
> (i.e. use of ioctls) are out of date now.
> Nowadays, there are ports of KGI to FreeBSD and OpenBSD in development
> - last one started recently.
> 
> CU,
> 
> Christoph Egger
> GGI Developer
> http://www.ggi-project.org/
> 
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