From: dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: server X 27 Sep 1998 00:42:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <71KuuUEppfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> To: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Cc: Alexander Kriegisch , 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. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD UCSD HCI Lab dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu baL ICH DSCU - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".