Mark McLoughlin writes:
 > Hi Alan,
 >      My impression was that the purpose of the dummy driver was a skeletal
 > implementation of a device driver which people could use when writing
 > new drivers. That's what I used if for anyway :-)

Not really. It is a fully working driver. I wrote it to simulate a
4x4 head display with just two real cards.

 > 
 >      The intention was to add the headless and input device-less support
 > from Xvfb along with the ability to undump the output using xwud. I
 > suppose I could have done that with the dummy driver, but that would
 > negate its value as a skeletal implementation ...
 > 

It takes care or the headless stuff. The input device handling can
be handled by the 'void' input driver.

Egbert.
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