From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:56:35 +0100 (MET)

Re: XFree86 4.0 and GGI

> The only thing stopping XFree developers working with GGI ones is the
> video drivers in the kernel. 

That is nonsense. SUIDKGI is there, and they can just use the KGI driver that
way. No problem at all.

The drivers can't use IRQ and stuff, then, but that's life in usermode.

> Because KGI is there to make graphics on the
> console work well, the console must be able to use it - and on Linux at
> least the console is in the kernel. If there is any way to make a small KGI
> server that uses IPC and which the console can be forced to use, there is
> nothing stopping XFree working with us (other than pride).

EvStack did that. Noone listened.

CU, Andy

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Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <Andreas.Beck@ggi-project.org>