On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:00, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Linux's current design has lots of holes in it. Start two X servers on two > different VTs (not just two sessions to the same X server)
How do you start two sessions to the same X server? *shrug* > you're going to reboot your machine. Works fine here... > Modprobe in the framebuffer driver for your video card from an xterm > window, you're going to reboot to fix it. These are examples of mutlple > systems trying to control the video hardware in an uncontrolled way. The only > reason anything works today is because there are some gentleman's agreements > between various systems not to stomp on each other. Sure, root can shoot himself in the foot. Nothing of what you've been proposing is going to prevent that, so I have no idea why you keep bringing this up. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
