[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ognyan Kulev) writes: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at GGI's KGI kernel drivers (ie, what fb came from)? I > > would imagine that the Mach environment would be ideal to host graphics > > drivers (as opposed to a monolithic kernel.) Or, are people happy with > > X? > > GGI was mentioned in mailing lists a time ago with the same in mind: as an > alternative of X. I don't think the main reason for doing some KGI-like translator is not to replace X, it's just that it's Right Thing to do. If there's gfx hardware present, there ought to be a decent framebuffer-like device/translator for it, like for all other hardware. Having X bang the hardware directly is ugly. /Niels
