From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: server X 23 Sep 1998 08:02:44 -0700 Message-ID: <71KuuUEppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi David, >Sergey Okhapkin writes: > >> Porting _Xfree86_ to win32 is a bad idea, because Xfree86 requires direct >> video hardware access. > >Could you expand on this further? 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. >-- >David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".