Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Apr 2008 21:45 UTC
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Member since:2005-08-26
It belongs in the kernel, as part of the gfx driver.
Having X11 handle modes (and host drivers) is retarded. Always has been, always will be. Hardware drivers should be tied to the kernel. Having them driven by a user-space app is a kludge at best.
At any rate, this is how BeOS & Haiku do it, and I'm sure countless other OS's out there that don't have their craniums firmly planed up their posteriors.
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2006-02-06
It can look that way but (at least the way I understood it, but I don't know much about the subject) it seems like what they are migrating from user space to kernel is some basic direct hardware access that X was doing before, basic functionality that really belonged in the kernel in the first place.
But even if that is wrong, I have to say that, given the problems this idea might solve, I'm all for it, being it modern or not