[interfacekit] Re: App Server Startup procedures and question

> > One question: I attempted playing around with the graphics driver stuff
> and
> > ran into one slight snag - the linker can't find control_graphics_card.
> > Anyone know how to get around this?
> >
> you might need to actually find an open source driver i'm guessing,
> otherwise if its a driver like something Be released. then you cant do
> anything to get around correct me if i'm wrong.

As I said in the other mail, this actually isn't an issue.  We just need
to load the symbol from the drivers/addons at runtime.

> as for everything else, it sounds right to me.  also dont know if you
> thought about this but once it finds the non-vesa driver that works, it
> should call B_OPEN_GRAPHICS_CARD on that driver on the next bootup.

I see what you're trying to do with this, but I don't think it's
strictly necessary (the process of loading an addon, checking to see if
it works and unloading it is very fast), and makes it less easy for the
system to magically "discover" that you've replaced your video card. 
This is of the things I absolutely love about BeOS -- swap out hardware,
and if there's a driver for it, it just works when you reboot. =)

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