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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:15:19 +0100
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        Alexander@Leidinger.net
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbusifying kbd?
Message-ID:  <20030122091519.B6700@armor.fastether>
In-Reply-To: <3E2D173C.3040507@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de>; from netchild@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:40AM %2B0100
References:  <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030120074638.A11055@armor.fastether> <20030120222027.GA597@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E2D173C.3040507@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de>

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:40AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> [KGI]
> 
> > I took a quick look at it. I'm not opposed to having graphics support
> > in the kernel. The problem I think I see is that we probably have
> > enough interest to make standard VGA work, but never really have the
> > people or interest to keep up with the latest and greatest graphics
> > engine. So, I think this would be useful only in a model where the
> > graphics drivers are contributed and the X server makes use of it.
> > So, if XFree86 changes to this model, then I see potential...
> 
> Chicken and egg problem... as far as I remember (I looked at it looong 
> ago) they have a X server too... or at least they want to provide one.

KGI provides a X server accelerated (PhoneiX) implementation not based on X. On
the other hand GGI (http://www.ggi-project.org), the user library going
with KGI does provide XFree86 (called XGGI) running) on top of the KGI
driver framework without its own drivers.

Nicholas

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