On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:26:56PM +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> Alain, your information is outdated. As of 1.2.1? svgalib programs can
> be run from within X. This is done as follows: if vga_init() finds that
> it runs from X, it allocates a new vt (which is in text mode), and
> switches to it. It is now X's responsibility to restore text mode. Then
> the svgalib program runs, and when it ends, svgalib restores text modes,
> and switches back to the X vt.
Prior to 1.4.0 there was a bug that stoped this working if superuser
priverlages were revoked.
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