On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:16:22PM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

 > In case you're curious, Sun machines have a formal protocol used to access
 > the keyboard, mouse, and framebuffer, which are implemented by a kernel
 > driver.  The kernel identifies the frame buffer and keyboard type and
 > deals w/most of the peculiarities.

NetBSD has that, too.  For keyboard/mouse, at lease (wscons).  Also
formalized framebuffer access... it's all based on the Sun stuff.

 > XFree86, OTOH, has all those screwey configuration files that are almost
 > impossible to set up by hand.  And the XFree86 configuration apps only
 > work well on x86 machines.

Yes, xf86 is a real hack :-/

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