Hi,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:27:43PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Aug 12, 07 17:50:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > I fail to understand why you want to put the manager in a daemon,
> > instead of just letting the kernel do the management, like it does
> > for all other hardware. Why is graphics hardware supposed to be
> > different in this regard?

> You just cannot compare graphics hardware with any other hardware at
> all. Graphics chips are more complicated than any CPU on the market,
> which other hardware type is similar?

Graphics chips are complicated, but the bulk of the complexity is not in
modesetting. Do you really think that modesetting (and other graphics
hardware management) is more complex than say a wireless network driver?

-antrik-

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