From:	dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu (David Fox)
Subject:	Re: server X
27 Sep 1998 00:42:15 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<u8d88ibakd.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@pipeline.ucsd.edu>
References:	<71KuuUEppfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de>
To:	michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Cc:	Alexander Kriegisch <kriegaex AT ina DOT de>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) writes:

> Hello Alexander, you wrote:
> >> >Why is direct video hardware access
> >> >more of a problem under windows than it is under Unix?
> >> Because Windows NT doesn't allow any direct access to the hardware.
> >I do not know enough about it, so this is more a question than a hint:
> >How about DirectX and the like? Is it not designed for granting the
> >developer direct hardware access?

> I also don't know much about X and the way it works, but why do we
> need direct hardware access anyway? AFAIK X opens some windows and
> makes simple drawing which should map on top of the normal Win32 API
> with its windowing and drawing functions.

I think this discussion started from the suggestion of porting XFree86
to Cygwin32, and XFree86 accesses the hardware directly.  Therefore,
XFree86 is not a good porting candidate.  But I don't think anyone
thinks its important to access the hardware directly.
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David Fox          http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox		xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab          dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu          baL ICH DSCU
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