"Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:
> I guess the problem is that the X driver messes directly with the
> card's registers but assumes nobody else would do that. It just
> happened to work most of the time in the past but it is plain wrong.

Actually, it is correct. We even have a protocol for communicating
with the X server to tell it to take or relinquish control.

Perry