[PATCH] xf86VGAarbiter,vgaHW: Only wrap co-operating VGA drivers

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Thu Sep 12 06:23:36 PDT 2013


>> Won't this break running two X servers on the same machine, where
>> both of them require VGA access?
> It still respects VT switching.  I'm not entirely clear how you would
> run two *VGA* xservers simultaneously otherwise.

Two framebuffers?  Or is there something about VGA that makes that
impossible?  (Seems dubious to me, especially given the existence of
PCI-to-ISA bridges - but I don't know peecee video hardware very well.)

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