ALS 2000 Technical Program

ALS 2000 Abstract

Developing Drivers and Extensions for XFree86-4.x

Dirk Hohndel , SuSE Linux AG

Abstract

This paper gives an introduction to driver development for XFree86-4.x. After a quick analysis of the existing problems in the previous XFree86 design, it describes the module loading architecture and the key interfaces that a graphics hardware driver for XFree86 must support.

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