Mathew McBride wrote:
> I've been able to lock the entire machine simply by running
a DirectX game under Wine on the back of faulty X drivers!
I can't recall if that's happened to me, but I know I've had
X lock up so badly I had to telnet in and kill it.   X drivers
run with root privs :-(

(would a kernel module allow debugging of such problems via Kernel debugging features?)
IMHO none of our graphics stuff should be moved to the kernel;
I don't think any of it's in wineserver anyway, is it?

Shades of NT4.0 :-)
- Dan

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