Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-16 Thread James Simmons
>I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every >other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the >kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not >only improve performance but would allow competing windowing systems >witho

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Brad Douglas
On 14 Feb 2001 01:09:10 -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > > other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the > > kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not > > only

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:09:10 -0500 (EST) > Both options cause political troubles. Currently the X server is > shared with OS/2 and other crummy systems. If the Linux kernel had > serious video drivers for PC hardware, then driver s

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the > kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not > only improve performance but would allow competing windowing systems

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Louis Garcia wrote: > I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > other piece of hardware. See linux/drivers/video and linux/drivers/char/drm in kernel 2.4. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern