How about a "gdm restart"? That is effectively an X server restart, right?
Then it's only about switching on and off the hardware, right? On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com>wrote: > > Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > > and if you want to keep your session in between, we lack > > - X.Org infrastructure to hand a session from a graphics driver to > > another (there are a million of possible problems here) > > Right; like a million display parameters which a client can query, but > for which there is no mechanism to request notification of changes, > and thus are (implicitly) constant over the lifetime of the client. > > I know that the X developers don't consider incompatible changes to be > completely out of the question, but if you're talking about a > particular screen suddenly changing e.g. its glGet* values, I don't > see that happening. > > And I don't think that it's realistic for the server to expose a > single set of parameters for two very different graphics chips. > > It's more realistic to treat this as a traditional multiple-"Screen" > setup, with the ability to enable and disable screens. Obviously, > windows would have to either be opened on the appropriate screen > (programs which need the 3D GPU on the screen which has one), or the > application/toolkit would need to explicitly provide migration. > > -- > Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >
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