Star A Root-less X Server Nears Reality
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 20:33 UTC, submitted by diegocg
X11, Window Managers "Due to now living in a KMS-enabled world, at least on the Intel and ATI side (the NVIDIA side is still slowly but surely coming via Nouveau), it's rather easy to get the X Server running without any special rights. Intel's Jesse Barnes explains on the X.Org mailing list that only a small patch is needed for the X Server and then a trivial one to the Direct Rendering Manager in the kernel."
E-mail Print r 4   10 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/gso
Thread beginning with comment 371499
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Direct Renering Manager
by stestagg on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 08:46 UTC
stestagg
Member since:
2006-06-03

Zomg DRM in the Kernel. Linus is evil!

[/jk]

Edited 2009-07-03 08:47 UTC

Reply Bookmark Score: 1

RE: Direct Renering Manager
by Bagnaj97 on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 14:12 in reply to "Direct Renering Manager"
Bagnaj97 Member since:
2007-01-24

Brought to you by the Rendering Infrastructure Association of Awfulness

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2