Mathew McBride wrote:
I've been able to lock the entire machine simply by running a DirectX game under Wine on the back of faulty X drivers!
I can't recall if that's happened to me, but I know I've had X lock up so badly I had to telnet in and kill it. X drivers run with root privs :-(
(would a kernel module allow debugging of such problems via Kernel debugging features?)
IMHO none of our graphics stuff should be moved to the kernel; I don't think any of it's in wineserver anyway, is it?
Shades of NT4.0 :-) - Dan