On 05/20/2016 04:40 AM, Rhialto wrote: > (This whole Kernel Mode > Switching is a disaster: now you need drivers for your graphics card in > your kernel as well as in the X server. Idiotic.)
Need to check your history on that. EVERYTHING UNIX, except for the x86 Unix'ish systems, had kernel controlled frame buffers. I used to be able to run X on Sun machines without running X as root. I am pretty sure HP-UX was the same although at the time I only had access via ROM coded X Terminals. x86, because of various lame problems with writing proper hardware drivers for the Linuxes and the BSDs, did ridiculous things like put x86 real mode interpreters into the X server and made it require root access so it could directly twiddle the PCI bus. This was madness. An XFree86 or X.org server crash could leave the machine unusable because the kernel had no idea of how to recover. Suspend/Resume cycles were also ridiculously complicated. Now the driver problems are fixed, mostly because BSDs have become ignorable. BSD systems can duplicate the Linux drivers, or die. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
