Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:44:39 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > > > > Thanks to the fbcon module interface its now about to become
> > > > > a matter of "slightly faster" v "slightly more kernel overhead/memory" by
> > > > > user choice - which is the ideal solution
> > > >
> > > > Would that this were the case. See above. Also, if you use
> > > > X86_FBdev you will have to give up all accelerations except rectangular
> > > > blitting, because that is all the fbcon API supports. XAA will also be
> > >
> > > Fbcon doesn't export rectangular blitting neither. fb.h may suggest so, but
> > > that was preliminary. Just removed it in cvs.
> > >
> > > > history. You could enhance XF86_FBdev to have knowledge of
> > >
> > > Why wouldn't XAA be possible>
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > Oops, I meant `impossible?'
>
> It made more sense the first time |->. Do you mean "why would it
> be possible"?

You are claiming that XAA is no longer possible. Why? I'm no XAA expect, but I
thought XAA was not VGA-specific.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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