From: rajat@watson.ibm.com (Rajat Datta) Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly? Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 17:14:59 GMT
In article <1992Sep15.212642.26628@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>
>Also, the issue is not only that people are going to have problems with
>external terminals, they are also going to have problems with running
>the program in X xterm windows.
>
>--
Of course, if you're going through X windows, or even the kernel, for
doing graphics for games, you can kiss goodbye any possibility of
having any kind of a real-time game. Just think of the pathlength
difference of setting a single bit.
There are good reasons for using something like the vgalib package
that makes it possible to get to the graphics display without the
pathlengths of X.
-- rajat (rajat@watson.ibm.com)