Re: Can't X be elemenated?

Jesse Pollard
2003-09-30T13:47:50Z

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:09, kartikey bhatt wrote:
> your graphics card (hw) is resource that needs to be managed by OS.
> leaving it to 3rd party developers is an *adhoc* solution, *a stark immoral
> choice*.
> my friend gotta new AMD athlon with nvidia gforce 32mb shared memory,

Nvidia doesn't support Linux.

> but he is on the mercy of X people to get full support for it.

Nvidia doesn't support X either.

> for now he has to do with generic i810 driver?
> any answer for that.

The problem with nvidia is that they will NOT release information on
programming their graphics board.

Without the information, no code.
No code, no driver.
No driver, no support.

Want a fix? talk to nvidia.

> my question is can't X be eleminated by providing support for
> graphics drivers and other routines at kernel level?

Sure - Already has been done.

There IS a framebuffer implementation of graphics display. And X already
supports it.

If you are talking about nvidia support.... talk to nvidia.