Automatic driver reload with X.org/Linux like with Microsoft Vista?

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Tue Dec 12 15:45:10 PST 2006


On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:52:26 +0000 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> babbled:

> Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > However, since X is network-transparent, "migration and replication"
> > become interesting. X apps should be able to move themselves from one X
> > server to another, and even display on multiple servers simultaneously.
> > See Jim Gettys' paper from Freenix 2002 [2]. In the abstract he
> > comments, "Applications should be able to easily survive the loss of the
> > X server ..." This is a key part of what you're asking for.
> > 
> > If toolkits and applications had widespread support for migration and
> > replication, then all we'd need to do what you ask is a trivial 100-line
> > watchdog process that could monitor, kill, and restart the X server. But
> > then we'd also have migration and replication, which would be so much
> > cooler than a mere bug workaround. :-)
> 
> Cool cool cool.... when? when? when? :D

SEP. (someone elses problem) :)

> Col
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