> > But I hope that when X uses this, it only enables & disables VGA
> > devices it's actually using. In the past, it seems like X has
> > blindly disabled *all* VGA devices in the system, even though
> > they might be in use by another X server. I'm sure that's all
> > well-understood and cleaned up now; just wanted to make sure
> > this nightmare didn't recur.
>
> Hopefully with the recent PCI changes to X, this will not happen. If
> it does, that's a big bug in X :)
On some machines it still has no alternative, since the kernel doesn't
have a VGA arbiter of any kind. Yes this sucks.
Jesse
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