xorg driver hook?

Aivils Stoss aivils at latnet.lv
Sun Apr 30 03:01:13 PDT 2006



On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:18:53PM +0300, Aivils Stoss wrote:
>>> Can someone tell me the best way for a userspace program to
>>> communicate to an Xorg display driver module?
>>>
>>> For example I want to tell the driver when to turn on / off the
>>> Hardware cursor for a given display.
>>
>> Why do You think X driver need a hook? Create Your own API and
>> protocol.
>
> Please don't encourage people to create their own wire protocols.  Doing
> that leads to XFree86-Rush.
>

I try out to find my way between XFree86-Goner and XFree86-Rush.

Here is a bazaar. Peoples sometimes ask for pink onions. I have
some pink onions and sell them. Some peoples create slogan
"We already have _yellow_ onions. We don't need pink onions at all!".
However yellow onions does not fit for all cases :-(

Aivils Stoss



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