Re: [forum] How about running X on top of something else?

[Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 Jim.Gettys@hp.com wrote:

> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > > As for PCI access, our SNAP drivers do all their own PCI enumeration and
> > > > XFree86 does it's own, and they coexist very peacefully.

> > > And I take it both have the same inability to handle hot plug still ?

> > Bah.  We don't relocate resources unless we need to.  So that ball's as
> > much in your court as it is in ours.

> > As to hot-plugging video adapters, very few of them, if any, can handle it
> > anyway.  And I don't see hot-plug as a high priority for the likes of ATI
> > and nVidia.

> Some of us already have this problem on handhelds.  People want to
> be able to plug in an additional screen and drive projectors.

> I certainly believe your comment, however....

> Hot plug of input devices is, however, a universal problem.

He can correct me if I'm wrong, but Alan was referring to hot-plugging PCI
adapters.

Marc.

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