is an X "soft" restart possible?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:36:09PM -0600, Michael Pardee wrote:
> 2. What would it take to prevent X from messing with the video card
> during a logout/login cycle.  In other words, how could we do a truly
> "soft" restart?

I very much suspect you're going to find that that is done to avoid
cross-session security issues, and that disabling it is Not A Great
Idea.  Keith?

Cheers,
-- jra
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