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

> playing with the fbdev interface for the last few weeks, and although 
> there are areas that could be improved a lot (ie: no current mechanism to 
> query available display modes that the hardware can support), I don't see 
> anything that is inherently non-portable. The interface on Linux is 

James is currently finalising the fbdev stuff in 2.5->2.6 so feedback
to him would be great if you've not already sent him the gripe list