At 4:39 PM -0400 7/29/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

:)On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:03:16PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
:)> Ohhhh.  I didn't realize that.  I thought it was just a macppc-specific
:)> issue.  That's reason enough to have a secure X server.
:)
:)It's the way XF86 likes to get at video card DMA. By way of the
:)kernel. Meaning it needs to access memory in a way we only allow the
:)kernel to at secure level >0. At least, that's how I understand the
:)situation.
:)
:)(This is a problem on any system that uses XF86, incidentally.
:)Linux, FreeBSD, whatever.)

OK, I see.  That makes sense.

:)> Carry on.
:)
:)Well, just as soon as I swap out the machine I started on for one
:)without a borked IDE drive, I will... ;^>

Bleh.

:)> Though, there is indeed a place for XFree86 on the systems without a PC
:)> standard video card in the hopes that it'll support more than 8bpp at
:)> 640x480, even if we don't get acceleration.
:)
:)Huh? My 6500 at work runs at 1024x768. Only OF 1.0.5 machines are
:)truly limited to 640x480; Xmacppc will happily use whatever the
:)framebuffer comes in from OF running at.

Yeah, I've only got my 7300 (OF 1.0.5) and my PowerBook (FireWire) (OF 3).
Granted the pismo does more than 1024x768, but it looks atrocious on the
LCD despite the fancy ATI scaling.

  -- MW